Corporations are not behind the call for RMS to be accountable. Thousands of individual people, including many former employees and free software collaborators, have called for him to step aside. It actually serves the opponents of free software quite well to have someone who pushes people away and facilitates a hostile environment, be in charge of the FSF. Also, RMS is not the free software movement. It's dangerous to conflate an individual with a movement. To say that the "free software movement is being attacked" when what's actually happening is that a bunch of individuals are calling for one person to take responsibility for their behavior is a sloppy generalization. It's disappointing that so many people have chosen to disbelieve former FSF employees, hundreds of women who have encountered RMS at conferences or MIT and many, many free software creators. The vast majority of the people who signed the letter asking for RMS to step down, care deeply about free software. I wish more of you would try to consider that. Best, Deb
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:23 AM Danny Spitzberg <[1][email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:36 PM Adrienne G. Thompson <[1][2][email protected]> wrote: > The intent to destroy the Free Software Movement for the purposes of procuring financial advantage might even be criminal and should be investigated This sounds like a big claim. What's the evidence? It's not a "claim". We already know that corporations are behind the attack. I explicitly proposed investigation. I'm sure you know the meaning of "investigate". Here's one definition from [2][3]dictionary.com: "Investigations are usually formal and official. The word ... is used in many other contexts to refer to the process of [3]investigating—systematically finding and examining [4]evidence." It's a claim in the legal sense; any lawsuit you might bring would bring a "claim" and seek adjudication. If you know it as a fact and have evidence that corporations (and if memory serves, certain government agencies) are behind the attacks on our pure and flawless hero, you should add it to [5][4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman for the benefit of all. Adrienne -- Freedom - no pane, all gaiGN! References: 1. GNU C-Graph - [6][5]http://www.gnu.org/software/c-graph 2. Code Art Now - [7][6]http://codeartnow.com 3. Abertheid Campaign - [8][7]http://www.abertheid.info 4. Follow me on Twitter @AdrienneGT @GNUcgraph 5. Let's Link Up: [9][8]https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegt/ References 1. mailto:[9][email protected] 2. [10]http://dictionary.com/ 3. [11]https://www.dictionary.com/browse/investigate 4. [12]https://www.dictionary.com/browse/evidence 5. [13]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman 6. [14]http://www.gnu.org/software/c-graph 7. [15]http://codeartnow.com/ 8. [16]http://www.abertheid.info/ 9. [17]https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegt/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [18][email protected] [19]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discu ss References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://dictionary.com/ 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman 5. http://www.gnu.org/software/c-graph 6. http://codeartnow.com/ 7. http://www.abertheid.info/ 8. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegt/ 9. mailto:[email protected] 10. http://dictionary.com/ 11. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/investigate 12. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/evidence 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman 14. http://www.gnu.org/software/c-graph 15. http://codeartnow.com/ 16. http://www.abertheid.info/ 17. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegt/ 18. mailto:[email protected] 19. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
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