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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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Dear dudes in my mentions, “Well in MY country it’s perfectly legal for a 45-year-old man to bang a 16-year-old girl” ...not the strong defense you think it is.
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@fsf board members, If you cannot remove Stallman from your board, your only remaining option with any moral integrity is to resign. We’re all waiting. We see you. And we’ll see what happens.@bkuhn_ebb_org@mindspillage@makoshark@gknauth@HenryPoole#cancelstallmanShow this thread -
Once more for the folks in the back: “FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS NOT WORTH MORE THAN ACTUAL WOMEN AND GIRLS”https://twitter.com/mandylibrary/status/1172308206917308419 …
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For the record: I give zero fucks about Stallman’s gross personal habits. I save all my fucks for the way he systematically and consistently acts to push women, girls, disabled people, and other folks from marginalized groups OUT of software.
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We shouldn’t
#cancelstallman because his ideas are abhorrent. We should do it because he has acted in abhorrent ways, deliberately & consistently, over 30 years, despite repeated feedback, & because in so doing he’s pushed countless women, girls, & others out of software.Show this thread -
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Updates: Stallman posted what might be the worst non-apology I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a LOT of non-apologies). https://twitter.com/theamyshim/status/1172946689553887232 … The
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Note what this apology includes: - a laser-like focus on his OWN experience of the incident - am attempt to shift blame to the media for “mischaracterizing” his words Note also what it does NOT include: - NO regret for having made the comments - NO plan to do better next time
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- NO empathy for the primary victims: people who were upset when they read the actual email - NO hint, even, of awareness of those folks, despite one of them having written the medium post that kicked this all off
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This is exactly the sort of bullshit he’s gotten away with for 30 years. NOT THIS TIME.
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Stallman has resigned from MIT, still claiming it was due to a “misunderstanding” Dude, we understand you JUST fine. That’s the problem.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-resigns-from-mit-over-epstein-comments …
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I started this thread four days ago. The silence of the
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Aaaaaaand seven minutes after I posted this, an official communique!https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1173780935910797312?s=21 …
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I want to take this moment to appreciate Selam Jie Gano, the MIT grad who wrote the medium post that set all this off. https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 … Thanks for your courage, Selam. It gave me the push I needed to get this going.
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We also owe an immense debt to all the people who’ve called this out since the 80s, usually in the face of individual and organizational indifference (or even hostility). I see you. You set this up, it was just for us to push over the finish line. Thank you
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Literally just spent the past few days dealing with a local nutter defending RMSs pedophilia apologia. Free and open source software is not worth more than actual women and girls.
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The problem of free software is that it is treat not just as an ideology, but as the only ideology that matters. On my side I've been dealing with people who think free software is more important than opposing fascism. No surprise the same shitty attitude extends to other things.
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I think there are pretty serious underlying problems in the open comm as a whole. There'a lot of work to be done to retheorise open. We need to rethink: * Decolonisation * Value of Labour * Theory of Change * Dismantling Structures of Power * Co-option of Progressive Rhetoric
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There should be more communists in FOSS, if you think about it.
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Yeah I don't think that's a fair thing to put on the communists. Clean up the community, get the values right, and commies will join in. There's a reason they aren't there, and it's because fsf and foss aren't lefty communities or causes.
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why foss and fsf can't be "lefty" communities or causes? ps.: I'm actually not with Stallman on all that shit, he should be at least banned from MIT, of course. but I don't think the same about his conquests on doing GNU and copyleft/foss philosophy
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Mainly the misogyny, colonialism, and racism. All underpinned with a water thin veneer of morally questionable legal theory. Take care of that and then they might be lefty movements and orgs.
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