[libreplanet-discuss] Why stay or start an FSF membership? To keep funding software freedom.

2019-09-20 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Caleb Herbert wrote: Stallman told me I can best help by becoming a member and being diligent about making sure they continue to do what they did when Stallman was still there. I can believe that and (regardless of who said it) I agree with this advice; the perspective of what we should be doing

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all

2019-09-20 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
RMS is very much alive. The plan to reinstate him as FSF president would automatically also include one for succession. This is not the time for rms to step aside while big corporations work to devour the principles of Free Software. Adrienne -- Freedom - no pane, all gaiGN!

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all

2019-09-20 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 09/20/2019 08:21 AM, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote: >No Leah, the way to go would have been to withdraw your membership - >not renew it! We should become or remain members, so we have a voice. It is critical. >We need to formulate a plan, a show of solidarity, addressing the FSF >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all

2019-09-20 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 09/20/2019 08:11 AM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:> I’m deeply afraid, that joining FSF out of support _now_ will be understood the other way round — as a sign of support of Dr. Stallman’s dismissal. Stallman told me I can best help by becoming a member and being diligent about making sure they conti

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] FSF has begun a search for a new president

2019-09-20 Thread Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
RMS did get paid for making speeches, even though he didn't get a president's salary. I could easily imagine someone doing it for free. People will do anything for fame and notoriety, as long as money is coming from somewhere else to pay for that person's living expenses. On Friday

[libreplanet-discuss] By Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2019-09-20 Thread Don Warner Saklad
By Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+Curious+Incident+of+the+Dog+in+the+Night-Time ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/l

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] FSF has begun a search for a new president

2019-09-20 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
"J.B. Nicholson" wrote: > 2. the FSF has begun a search for a new president. (per > https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns), > It would be a shame if the FSF made a compromise where they favored sating a > desire for identity politics… > I hope they'll pick someone who is deeply in

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is Stallman nuts?

2019-09-20 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:29 PM Will Hill <[1]will.hillno...@gmail.com> wrote: He did not say that. He said the phrase "sexual assault" is ambiguous and misleading, and that prostitution is not equivalent to violent rape. He also argued that it's wrong to define ra

[libreplanet-discuss] We should all do something a little different now.

2019-09-20 Thread Will Hill
On Thursday 19 September 2019, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Those who here have clear how the statements of RMS have been > misunderstood, distorted and in some cases even manipulated - more or less > consciously, often with superficiality and hypocrisy - should manifest it, > asking FSF to reject t

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is Stallman nuts?

2019-09-20 Thread Will Hill
On Sunday 15 September 2019, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote: > Contrary to Stallman's comment that "the word 'assaulting' presumes that he > applied force or violence", force or violence is not necessary to > constitute rape or "assault". The fact that a young woman might have > presented herself as

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all

2019-09-20 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:13 AM Dmitry Alexandrov <[1]321...@gmail.com> wrote: Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss <[2]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: > Instead of responding in solidarity, you all allowed yourselves to be manipulated by a *blatant* smear campai

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all

2019-09-20 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss wrote: > Instead of responding in solidarity, you all allowed yourselves to be > manipulated by a *blatant* smear campaign that took *one* post from him out > of context. > The recent bullshit has made me renew my FSF membership, out of support. > Everyone sho

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] FSF should defend RMS and reject his resignation!

2019-09-20 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno giovedì 19/09/2019 12:29:53 -0700 Aaron Wolf ha scritto: > It seems the public haranguing is so good at drawing emotion and > attention that anything that doesn't fit the narrative gets ignored too > often. > > And defending the accused in this bold public campaign way *does* fit > the

[libreplanet-discuss] exposure to lynchings in free software communities

2019-09-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
Does anybody keep an index of all the lynchings in free software communities? Whether RMS did something wrong or not, the trial-by-social-media-and-email process is abusive. Such processes are rigged against just outcomes in many ways. These lynchings have many downsides that are not visible o