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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Can you explain what you mean when you say that they build their empires on licenses that sustain Stallman's power? The FSF has no power over GPL licenses. Software licensed under the GPL is not "licensed by the FSF".
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ddshore Retweeted Sarah Mei
You? https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1172286518204887040 …https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1172287015154380801 …
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Ahhh I see. Limits of the medium I guess. Easier than saying “software using licenses written, maintained, and enforced by the FSF”
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Strange that you would misremember such a quote even though it was little more than 24 hours ago. Do you have any ghost writers?
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