On 15.02.2020 3:33, Mark Wielaard wrote:
This initiative is not supported by Richard Stallman.
Nevertheless, we consider it a legitimate action by and for GNU
maintainers to collectively define the core values we believe GNU
stands for.
That makes it sound like Richard is the sole contrarian, and you five
(or however many) represent all the "good guys" GNU maintainers who are
endorsing this document.
I get that there is an idea floating around that maybe RMS is not great
at "social stuff", but what you've demonstrated here, probably with good
intentions, is the Elephant in a China Shop approach to politics that
befits a regular engineer (in a Dilbert sense).
Whereas Richard's views on this and related subjects have been
repeatedly demonstrated to be quite refined, apparently over decades of
dealing with them.
