Dmitry Alexandrov writes:
> Sandra Loosemore <san...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >> The absolute worst thing the public-facing representative of *any* >> organization can do is bring negative publicity to the organization >> about things that are irrelevant or contrary to the organization's >> mission. > > Iʼm afraid, you conflated two points. Publicity that undermine the > core competency of an organization — yes, is perhaps is the most > harmful thing for it. > > While negative publicity on irrelevant topics is either much less > harmful, or sometimes even beneficial. > >> As a result of RMS's comments, all of a sudden the public >> conversation about the GNU project was not about how good our >> software is and how free software is taking over the world and >> beneficial to everybody > > Dr. Stallman has been always, in almost every his speech, pointed out, > that in terms of publicity everything is still so bad, that he has to > struggle to make it known that GNU and free software movement in > general merely exist. And that they are not the same as Linux® and > ‘open source’, in particular. > > Under that conditions, any kind of public attention to GNU should be > welcoming. > >> It's been a public relations disaster for the GNU project. :-( > > Time will tell. As I previously requested, please let's drop discussions of particular people, especially when it comes to what they said or did outside of GNU. I know you are not attacking but standing in rms's defense, however at this point it's only going to stir up dying embers. Can we just leave it there? -- -brandon