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How is this reprehensible for a Foundation that is, by definition, an activist one (and pretty extreme in its activism too - which is not a dig btw)? It is not about communities, it is most definitely not about source code - it is about activism. If anything Ian is doing his job

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Mar 30, 2021

Hey, want to take a guess what the @FSF's latest board member, Ian Kelling's, most recent contribution to Free Software is? That's right: harassing a project trying to rewrite common POSIX tools in Rust for being Anti-Freedom™. Because they chose the MIT license.

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They're misusing an issue tracker to harass overworked open source developers with their ideological nonsense. If they want to use authoritarian laws to restrict how people can use software, that's fine, but stop harassing others for not sharing those ideological beliefs.

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Open source maintainers are inundated with enough nonsense already. Concern trolls showing up telling them that their project is only notable for not conforming to a cult's beliefs about software licenses is reprehensible. Just banned them from every org where I have admin.

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That kind of issue tracker misuse should result in a global ban from GitHub. It's concern trolling wearing down developers with nonsense and causing them to burn out. I regularly deal with this nonsense. Zero interest in cult members telling me Apache 2, MIT, etc. is immoral.

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yup -- I'm with you 100% -- no time for license nonsense (although -- lets face it ALv2 is the best ;-)). We both have the right to ignore activists online as much as we don in real life. But we also should recognize them for what they are.