* Andreas Enge <[email protected]> [2019-11-06 09:57]: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:56:15AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > > Instead of making GNU more welcoming place by lessening the burden of > > formalities, you in fact propose GNU to withdraw deeper into itself by > > inventing ideology-driven ‘contracts’. And in order to add an insult to > > injury — to cover it with Western buzzwords like ‘inclusiveness’. :-\ > > Ideology? Hm. I do not see how the aim of creating a harassment-free > environment could be construed as making GNU a less welcoming > place...
There is no place in the world that can make it truly harassment-free as some people may always find ways to harass others. The aim of GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to encourage contributions from everybody. That would include also contributions from people who may have different and opposing viewpoints, even type of behavior that you would not encourage. One practical way to create harassment free environment could be to retract your signature on the public shaming of the GNU project, and then transfer your thoughts, statements and signatures to the off-GNU and non-GNU related website. Harassment from Wordnet dictionary: * Overview of noun harassment The noun harassment has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. harassment, torment -- (a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors") 2. harassment, molestation -- (the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism) Obviously there are people who felt intense annoyance and have withdrawn their contribution to Guix because of that. Various software projects have been mentioned on your statement page, mentioning such as GNU Lilypond, GNU Mediagoblin, GNU libc, GCC, GNU Binutils and other projects to give appearance that whole project is taking stand to defame and harass RMS. The effect of that public shaming is that some people who do contribute or contributed to mentioned GNU projects are being discouraged. I have given you clear references of few of them who dared expressing themselves on the Guix IRC chat. Thus contributors feel harassed too, unspoken of how RMS feels about that. I am speaking only of contributors. Do you know that I have personally discovered that statement at the moment that I wanted to install Guix distribution? I found it extremely hateful and baseless. And I did make question and called for facts, and none of their facts justify that public shaming. It harasses RMS, we know that. But it also harasses contributors to those mentioned GNU projects. Your public shamings is totally opposite to what GNU project is made for. Remove it.
