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Director of Community, @DIAL_Community Open Source Center @UNFoundation. Less Twitter, more @MastodonProject. He/him. 73 de N2UN

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    1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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      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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    2. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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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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    3. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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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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    4. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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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.

      11 replies 55 retweets 450 likes
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    5. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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      Hey @fsf - fire your President and Board Chair. He just sent an email to the MIT computer science community claiming that sex with an underaged girl is not rape. I know you know about him and his 'problematic' ideas already. Just letting you know that WE KNOW.

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    6. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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      And also, @fsf, while we're at it, lemme let you in on something else: Your refusal to part ways with him - despite well-known incidents that have pushed women & others out of free software for decades - might have been ok 10 years ago. Maybe even 2 years ago. It's not ok now.

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    7. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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      Sarah Mei Retweeted 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈

      Let's see - who's on the @fsf board of directors? Could we count on them to do the right thing? Ok, first name on the list is Gerald J. Sussman....oh.https://twitter.com/H0tdish/status/1166445162681249792?s=20 …

      Sarah Mei added,

      𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 @H0tdish
      MIT-CSAIL; heart of com$ci/infosec, we sadly find ppl we respect, allegedly supporting a man who sexually assaulted minors. :/ MIT Gerald Sussman: “Jeffrey Epstein is one of the most amazing, interesting, & brilliant people that I know". https://web.archive.org/web/20101112051649/http://www.jeffreyepsteinscience.com/testimonials/ …
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    8. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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      Second name on the list is Geoffrey Knauth - @gknauth - who retweeted a hideous Bret Stephens NYT editorial about how all this 'liberalism' is eroding 'excellence' https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/university-campus-diveristy-inclusion-free-speech.html … Not holding my breath for either of these gents.

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    9. Jennifer Redman‏ @jenred Sep 12
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      Replying to @sarahmei @fsf @gknauth

      I’m very interested in hearing a response from @conservancy and @o0karen0o given the organizations close association with the fsf. Bradley M. Kuhn is on the fsf board and President of @conservancy . We give them $$$$ which is going to end now.

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      Michael Downey  🇺🇳‏ @downey Sep 12
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      Replying to @jenred @sarahmei and

      As far as I know FSF and conservancy don't have any formal relationship anymore.

      5:01 PM - 12 Sep 2019
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        1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Sep 12
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          Replying to @downey @jenred and

          Bradley Kuhn, "Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy," is listed on @fsf's 'about' page as on their board of directors. https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/ …

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        2. Michael Downey  🇺🇳‏ @downey Sep 12
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          Replying to @sarahmei @jenred and

          Yeah for sure. But that doesn't mean the charities have any kind of relationship to each other, is all I'm saying.

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        3. Christopher Lemmer Webber‏ @dustyweb Sep 12
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          Replying to @downey @sarahmei and

          I think the two orgs are fairly independent of each other FWIW. Conservancy is also fairly pro-active in its progressiveness; Outreachy is a good example.

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