> What are you going to do, stop using Free Software altogether? Like "I > don't use it because RMS said mean things"? Makes no sense. But to > each his own.
Although I supported the FSF moving forward with a new president this is not why I am leaving Trisquel, and I did not say that. I know that the distribution is not RMS. I am leaving because I feel the nature of community discussion here in general, across many topics, is having a huge impact on the viability of Trisquel as a friendly distribution for those who want to dip their toe into fully-free software. I have been struggling with this since I joined efforts here. > Agreed. There should be some sort of limit to disassociating oneself > from RMS; otherwise the logical conclusion seems to be to remove > oneself from anything he ever had anything to do with at all which > would seem to mean that one has to stop using any free software at all > and go use 100% proprietary software because the entire free software > movement itself came from RMS. That's absurd, of course, but it shows > that there should be some sort of limit on this disassociation. Not > agreeing with this positions that one doesn't agree with but agreeing > with other positions (like free software) seems a sufficient line to > draw to not have to go into absurdity. People can set whatever limit they are comfortable with - it will understandably be different depending on personal views. Again, see above. I have personally rejoined the FSF to support them as they move forward... which is certainly not disassociating myself to the extent of leaving free software. I hope Trisquel continues, and grows. I just won't be part of that at this time. All the best.
