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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: 4, Insightful) by aim on Friday March 26 2021, @11:04AM (3 children)
I wonder who the people on the Board are. "Free Software advocates". Leaders of some large projects. Uhm sorry, there would be no Free Software, none of these projects, if it were not for RMS starting the whole thing in the first place. Booting him out for really no reason at all (considering the facts of what he actually said/wrote) reeks of some sort of attempted power grab. Sure, he has some obnoxious sides (hell I know, I've driven him around in my car while he was visiting for a conference), but as for his stance on Free Software, he's spot on, and that's what counts.
He who is without sin should throw the first stone. Anyone? Certainly not these guys.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday March 26 2021, @04:53PM (1 child)
Stop saying that! You're going to put the rock polishers out of business.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @08:57PM
Nonsense. There is no shortage of new-age beliefs, and so there will continue to be significant demand for
polished rocks^W^W chakra healing gemstones.(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 26 2021, @07:47PM
I agree. This is almost certainly an attempted power grab. Free as in freedom software is a direct threat to the capability of the bourgeoisie to accomplish large-scale censorship of the internet, while routing around pesky 1A issues, on the eve of World War 3.
The WSWS has been documenting the suppression of left and anti-war viewpoints, and Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (← you are here) is a part of that.
ICFI/Socialist Equality Party—
A brief history of free software until May 2000: The Microsoft law suit, software development and the capitalist market [wsws.org]
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