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Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board:
Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for Stallman to be removed again and for the FSF's entire board to resign.
The open letter said:
Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
Previously:
Richard Stallman Rejoins Free Software Foundation Board of Directors
Richard M. Stallman Resigns
Richard Stallman Deserved to be Fired, Says Fired GNU Hurd Maintainer
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @12:33AM (1 child)
"To sign, please email digitalautonomy at riseup.net or submit a pull request."
riseup.net: "Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change." "This site is run by Riseup, your friendly â’¶utonomous tech collective since 1999"
Considering how much some of them have been badmouthing the FSF, these radicals are sure eager to tell them how to run things.
I scanned the list and found at least three people I knew personally. Graduates within the last 20 years of a private university, probably 90% drawn from well-to-do families.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 27 2021, @11:54PM
And that is the ongoing pattern.
The people that hold these opinions are from one of two camps.
Either people with well established office careers, and thus would not know the hardships of service jobs, or newly minted graduates, often with social science degrees, with a upper middle or higher class background.
that term, class, is the one term USA do not talk about (except when fretting about "middle class", as if the nation was made up of only that). Possibly because even taking that into their mouth risk labeling them as communist.
Thus they will yak endlessly about race or gender (never mind that they conflate gender and gender roles, to avoid considering how rigid said roles are in USA, thus resulting in the whole trans-gender bruhaha) but ignore that more people are joined by class than anything else (or they know, and want to avoid it lest the working class will band together against them and take away their skimmed lattes).