On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 2:00 AM Yasuaki Kudo <y...@yasuaki.com> wrote: > > If this is the case, a few more follow-up questions: > > - Is this attitude widely shared among the participants of FSF or GNU > projects?
"attitude" is a very strong / loaded word, it is making me hesitate to answer "yes or no". there is a goal: that goal is the combination of Ethical behaviour and principles applied to Software usage and development. the *advice* of - or more like the documentation behind - the GNU Project and of the Free Software Foundation (which is very different from an *attitude*) is to promote that combination of Ethical behaviour and principles as applied to Software usage and development. people can have a "bad" or a "good" attitude whilst also still respecting (or disrespecting) those principles. i've seen that happen. > - Are there GNU projects other than Guix, in which helping people with special > needs for their proprietary systems, by purposefully discussing and sharing > the > knowhow, is shunned - perhaps with some of the participants even declaring > to leave the project unless it is? 😅 Dr Stallman's perspective is amazingly clear and very respectful. what i have seen him do is to make it clear what the goal of the GNU Project is (to promote the combination of Ethical behaviour in the form of Software), and to *very respectfully* redirect anyone wishing to *disregard* or undermine that goal to move their discussion elsewhere. in the version of the GNU Maintainers documentation that i was helping to edit, it gives advice here on how to respectfully deal with this situation. it does *NOT* imply "go be a complete dickhead and smash people's opinions into the floor because they want to use nonfree software" because by doing so you are, yourself, basically being a dickhead and undermining Free Software as a result. in circumstances where people are being dickheads, chances are high that anyone who left, and then had their system hacked (or it becomes unstable / unusable) because they used nonfree software, would go, "shit, i should have listened to those people who told me of the consequences of using nonfree software..." at which point there are *two* possible paths for the thoughts in their head: 1) "... but they were such disrespectful dickheads that i am never going back even though it would be beneficial for me" or: 2) "... and they were so respectful i think i'll go back sheepishly because from their behaviour when i *wasn't* listening to them, i have confidence that they won't attack me or try to undermine me" you see how that works? l. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss