Re: anti-RMS / pro-RMS dichotomy (was: transparency and succession)

2019-10-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/10/2019 02:44, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > computational freedom feminist mob That could be insulting to feminists. The mob is just a mob. Selfish people after money, power and indulging themselves by making others suffer. More sadistic than feminist. Stealing credibility from a few

anti-RMS / pro-RMS dichotomy (was: transparency and succession)

2019-10-01 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Lori Nagel wrote: > There are people there who feel that RMS should have stepped down a long time > ago.  There are also people who support RMS and strongly disagree with the > smear campaign against him.  I think the reason that the FSF hasn't made an > official statement on it, is that they

Re: transparency and succession

2019-10-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 01/10/2019 16:11, Lori Nagel wrote: > The FSF has a private associate members forum that is only for associate > members who pay their dues ($120 a year last I checked). > So yeah, for just $120 a year, no only do you get free libre planet > admission, but you get access to a private forum as

Re: Reporting mailing list as spam == being a swine

2019-10-01 Thread Christopher Waid
On 2019-10-01 09:56 AM, Lori Nagel wrote: I usually flag stuff as spam after I try to unsubscribe (from whatever, after all I might have inadvertently signed up and then changed my mind) and still keep getting unwanted emails. Unfortunately, I get a lot of spam related to politics now. Is this

Re: transparency and succession

2019-10-01 Thread Thomas Jensch
lol. sometimes I really think, Goodwin's Law is one of the basic principles of this verse :D * Daniel Pocock [2019-09-30T12:28+0200]: > Well, back in 1939 the Federal authorities of German were really ___ Discussion mailing list

Re: Reporting mailing list as spam == being a swine (was: transparency and succession)

2019-10-01 Thread Danny Spitzberg
This email and many others on this list have been landing in my spam folder On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 9:57 AM Lori Nagel wrote: > I usually flag stuff as spam after I try to unsubscribe (from whatever, > after all I might have inadvertently signed up and then changed my mind) > and still keep

Re: transparency and succession

2019-10-01 Thread Lori Nagel
The FSF has a private associate members forum that is only for associate members who pay their dues ($120 a year last I checked).So yeah, for just $120 a year, no only do you get free libre planet admission, but you get access to a private forum as well. There are people there who feel that

Re: This mailinglist

2019-10-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 01/10/2019 09:33, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: > > To become productive: > > What are the topics ot be discussed here to improve the Free Software > movement in a productive way? > > How does the list become fruitful? > When I started the thread about who to give[1] money to, I did that

Re: spotting a cult (was: transparency and succession)

2019-10-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 01/10/2019 04:20, Christopher Waid wrote: > On 2019-09-30 05:12 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> On 30/09/2019 23:03, Christopher Waid wrote: >> >>> more in tune with the ideologies expressed and beyond. The FSF has been >>> co-opted by people on the left to do things it shouldn't be doing. RMS

This mailinglist

2019-10-01 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, my problem with this list is, that there are no positive and productive postings on it. So it is a nice documentation of rumours and quarrels in a part of the Free Software movement, nice to enjoy with some popcorn, but not fruitfully. So it is almost all wasted energy. Ok, that was