vp oliva on the board of directors: "since I joined the FSF board, and quite possibly before that, **the FSF board never made any decision to distance the FSF from Richard, to criticize him, or to celebrate his departure. Quite the opposite**, if you look carefully at statements issued by the board" http://techrights.org/2020/02/24/oliva-on-coup/
on the staff: "Somehow, despite the decision by the board to stay the course after Richard left, **the notion that got to FSF staff was that we were to move away from him, silence his supporters and support his silencers.**" "I got a few surprised messages from outsiders who wondered “what was going on, weren’t you guys supposed to keep quiet?!?” While others took it all over? No, I don’t think I ever agreed to that." the fsf is not required to keep the board up to speed: "FSF operates with a lot of autonomy. Sometimes it felt like the board and the presidence are not even part of the FSF. Just to name two examples, I wasn’t even aware of the campaign to Upcycle Windows 7, or the awesome Shoetool Video, before they went public." http://techrights.org/2020/02/25/fsf-communication-policies/ after the president was ousted, vp oliva was isolated from fsf staff: "There’s an internal wiki used to draft up posts, record meeting logs, document internal procedures, and also for plenty of informal internal communication such as personal activity logs, reading recommendations, and random thoughts and ramblings. I had been granted access to it early on, and welcomed to peruse it to keep up with internal ongoings. I did, for some time, and later I even thought I could use it for collaboration with staff and participate in activities!" "Alas, that didn’t last long. I can’t tell whether it was because I extracted information from the logs that contradicted other information I was given, because I raised issues about information and plans I read there, or because I started storing in it drafts of plans and messages that affirmed board guidances and questioned deviations from them, but my I access was cut off without warning due to “misuse of the resource”." http://techrights.org/2020/02/25/fsf-communication-policies/ months after after daniel discovered the mailing lists being censored of pro-stallman messages https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/pipermail/discussion/2019-November/000556.html "As I understand, there were 2 moderators Carlos O'Donell and Mark Wielaard who are in same time signatories of the public shamings anddefamation of Dr. Stallman. Several members discussed their way ofmoderation, and they both admitted to be biased and think that doesnot matter. Carlos said "everybody is biased", and that he is biasedtoo, thus totally losing control over the function of a moderator thatshall be impartial." oliva himself was also censored from libreplanet, even though his speech was accepted originally-- because he MIGHT, they fear, say something supportive of stallman. but its not a coup! "Or, as we say in Brazil, “mas não é golpe!” That phrase became popular in Brazil during former president Dilma Rousseff’s ousting and Lula’s judicial persecution, when the most outrageous and illegal moves were portrayed by the mainstream press, favorable to the coup, as perfectly legal and reasonable procedures." daniel on the coup: https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/pipermail/discussion/2019-September/000155.html _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
