Is LibrePlanet Safe?

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The article links to a video where RMS argues with some event organizer about the need to end a talk at the scheduled time. RMS argues that

1. He's in charge of the event.

2. There is nobody else using the room, so it isn't necessary to leave if they don't want to.

I don't understand the complaint.

Well, other people using the room aren't the only consideration. He eventually gets interrupted (after ~2 minutes) by someone saying that "the final keynote is about to start", so at minimum the speaker will have to hurry to the final keynote; if that person hadn't happened to come in with the reminder, the speaker might have been held longer and been late to the keynote. Of course, she could have excused herself, but it would be awkward and risk rudeness to do that while someone is in the middle of asking you questions (especially once he made an issue of being allowed to ask them).

Fair enough then

This is dangerous garbage. Anyone who would attack LibrePlanet and RMS this way is an obvious enemy of Free Software. We need to keep LibrePlanet safe against the attacks of these puppets.

Of course LibrePlanet is safe - Don't embolden or empower these people.

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