Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"

[strypey]

Reading the notes from Alyssa and Leah actually brought tears to me cry. It  
is incredibly brave of her to acknowledge her very public mistakes, admit  
their negative consequences, apologise to John, Reuben, Timothy, and Damien,  
by name, to the GNU maintainers, and most importantly to the anonymous person  
who Leah thought she was crusading on behalf of. The burned bridges are not  
going to be rebuilt overnight, but it's an important step forward for Leah,  
the Libreboot community, and the software freedom movement as a whole.

I've dealt with people crusading in the same sorts of ways, damaging  
relationships and burning down projects in their righteousness. Some of them  
still go around smearing my reputation and working hard to exclude me from  
projects, and I could count on one hand the number of them who have ever had  
the integrity to admit their were in the wrong, and apologise to me. Please  
don't underestimate the strength of character it takes to publicly humble  
oneself in the way that Leah has done. She deserves our respect, and our  
support, as she carries on her work for our movement.