Stallman deserves neither gratitude nor solidarity.
His enablers, like Oliva, don't either.
#cancelstallman
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After the Jacob Applebaum incident in 2016, the board of directors for the Tor project ALL resigned. The structure they'd built & perpetuated was what allowed the problem to happen. Tor would never recover without a fresh start. The
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Similarly: just firing Travis K. didn't magically make Uber more ethical or inclusive. Like the
@fsf, Uber was built as a monoculture - a cult of personality - from the start.1 reply 9 retweets 83 likesShow this thread -
Uber remains a deeply unethical and untrustworthy company _precisely because_ they lopped off the head without dismantling the structure it built.
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If the remaining board members of
@fsf truly care about advancing the cause of free software, they will resign. Let the organization rebuild. Gerald J. Sussman@gknauth@HenryPoole@makoshark@bkuhn_ebb_org@mindspillage Alexandre Oliva#cancelstallman4 replies 21 retweets 92 likesShow this thread -
Let 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/oyXp1FaHZ7
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He goes on to insinuate that the accusations against Stallman amount to "high school gossip."pic.twitter.com/5eZTHmNk4e
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He then uses the word "slander" again to characterize my statements of fact about a public figure, and defends Stallman for having done "great good."pic.twitter.com/WhTVm4Op8e
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None of the other board members have made public statements. Based on the two we have, though, I see no indication that the
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In case you need mre evidence: the FSF finally had added "Encourage contribution by people underrepresented in the community" to their high priority projects in early 2017. Back then I thought it was a step in the right direction, previously this list was exclusively technical
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... but if you look at the details (https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/contribute …), you see that they suggest you to apply a code of conduct toprojects, and contribute to Outreachy, which they don't run and as far as I can tell, don't sponsor either. So they are letting that to others
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