On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:11 PM Matt Ivie <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not the first attack to ever take place on a community or the > figurehead of a movement. I think we all know that other important > social movements have had their share of media-driven scandal. What is > most important here is how we move forward.
+1 > What RMS said is being misquoted and misstated everywhere around the > web. Those that were already overly critical of him just went > supernova. This situation has made it hard to keep perspective of > what's going on. The misinterpretation part is hardly the problem. The bigger problem is the number of reports on RMS's misogyny, anti-feminist position and doings that have accumulated over time. These were not so well-known before even within the free software community before -- at most people invoked various disorders to explain RMS's behavior. In one keynote, RMS's response to a question was "Oh wait you're a woman! I don't answer questions from women." Furthermore there are ill-informed statements on feminism in RMS's blog -- they mean RMS is still a slave of the patriarchy. FSF will do well to highlight its commitment to gender equality and feminist practices. > > There are some things in this situation that are not totally clear to > me: > > 1) Is RMS still going to have any kind of interaction with the FSF? Should FSF impose conditions on those who are associated with them? > 2) I am unclear as to the motivation for his resignation. I'd like to > know if he voluntarily resigned or if he was urged or forced to > "voluntarily" resign? > Apparently it is voluntary. It is really a good thing. The image of FSF would have been severely tarnished otherwise. Best A Mani Prof.Dr.(Miss) A Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS, IEEE Senior Member, International Rough Set Society Homepage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: https://logicamani.blogspot.in/ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mani_A sip:[email protected] _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
