The @fsf needs to remove Richard Stallman as President and Chair of the Board of Directors. If you want to voice your opinion, there's contact info here: https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/
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@conservancy issues statement: "The fight for diversity, equality & inclusion is the fight for software freedom; our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. We are appalled at recent statements made by Richard Stallman"https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/ …1 reply 13 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
More details on Richard Stallman's harassment of women at MIT:https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88 …
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Sage Sharp Retweeted Andromeda Yelton
Why has Richard Stallman remained the
@fsf president for over 20 years?@ThatAndromeda says a president should step down when they no longer represent the community. I guess the FSF feels Stallman's statements about rape & abuse do represent them.https://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda/status/1173584637911797761?s=19 …Sage Sharp added,
Andromeda Yelton @ThatAndromedaI can't get@sarahmei 's call to the@fsf board to evict RMS as executive director out of my head. I have ~a decade of experience on national & international nonprofit boards, including 2 ED transitions, and here's the deal: no one has an inalienable right to be an ED. 1/Show this thread3 replies 7 retweets 35 likesShow this thread -
Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT, but not as
@fsf president and board chair. Please keep up the pressure. https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September_2019_(Resignation) …4 replies 15 retweets 50 likesShow this thread -
Sage Sharp Retweeted Free Software Fndn.
Richard Stallman resigned as both President and Board chair of the FSF. Now the real work begins to undo decades of damage he's done to the free software community, and especially people in marginalized groups in free software. I wish the
@fsf staff luck.https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1173780935910797312?s=19 …Sage Sharp added,
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Sage Sharp Retweeted Sarah Mei
Richard Stallman has resigned, but sympathetic FSF board members remain. Alexandre Oliva, who took over as FSF president, says RMS didn't deserve to be removed. He centers RMS' pain (his dear friend) over the pain of victims of sexual harassment of RMS.https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1174371580547223553?s=19 …
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Sage Sharp Retweeted Sarah Mei
A second FSF board member called the stories of RMS' sexual harassment "high school gossip" and "slanderous accusations". Geoff Knauth's admiration of RMS meant he could not believe people who experienced sexual harassment from Richard Stallman.https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1174394691384561664?s=19 …
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Sarah MeiVerified account @sarahmeiLet me add here some comments from current@fsf board member@gknauth about my original thread from last week, listing 30 years of Stallman-related incidents. First, he calls my previous threads "slanderous accusations" (despite the IN-THREAD receipts). pic.twitter.com/oyXp1FaHZ7Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Richard Stallman's removal leaves a power vacuum to be filled. Can the FSF hire a president who can refocus the free software movement to be more inclusive towards marginalized groups? Please continue that pressure.
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Sage Sharp Retweeted Sarah Mei
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Sarah MeiVerified account @sarahmeiThis is really important. Stallman is gone, but the house he built remains. The@fsf board is still stacked with his supporters. As we look towards what the future of free software COULD be, we need to dismantle that twisted structure and rebuild something better. https://twitter.com/cra/status/1174327879955562501 …Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 5 likesShow this thread
@sarahmei Why is it so important to destroy stallman and the FSF to rebuild with your ideals? Why not build a better alternative in parallel - "Fork" the FSF, if you will? Create a more inclusive alternative what can obsolete the model that you feel is so rotten.
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