I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny. Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!" NOPE.https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 …
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Stallman was the founder - and is STILL the President and Board Chair - of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF is enormously influential. Among other activities, it publishes the software licenses used by much of the 'copyleft' world - the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL licenses.
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I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.
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I'm done. The free software community looks the other way while they build their empires on licenses that sustain Stallman's power.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Turns out, “free” has always meant “free for people-like-me to exploit people-not-like-me in whatever way we feel like.” It’s never meant human rights.
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Replying to @jensimmons @sarahmei
That’s just about the perfect wording for one of my still-hazy thoughts about freedom or liberty when it comes to politics: there’s two ways it’s understood and therefore implemented throughout a system. One is the freedom to exploit. The other is freedom from exploitation.
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Replying to @StardustHijinks @sarahmei
I see people basically demanding “freedom” from the consequences of their actions. No matter the cost to society. Free to steal, and not be punished. Free to silence others, without being stopped. Free to behave badly, & not be socially shunned. That’s not what freedom means.
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You're free to create your own FSF.
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