> We look forward to working with the FSF and others to enable the FSF to once again become an effective and trusted advocacy organization in line with its chartered non-profit mission.
Translation: cave to the mob if you want our money.
Translation: cave to the mob if you want our money.
You’ll end up with spineless yes people who don’t push back and also do nothing but do PR (virtue signal the latest fad).
Do they get to call for the management to get fired? Maybe their competitors get to call them out.
I mean the result of firings is measurably worse than being weirded out by an anti social guy.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2020/09/20/eeoc-...
I disagree.
RMS is (much like Joseph Ratzinger, for a different religious movement) much better as a chief theologian, theorist of doctrine, and internal enforcer of and exhortationist to doctrinal purity within the Church than an ambassador or evangelist to those not already deeply committed.
Literally no person, anywhere, regardless of background, history, technical capability, history with free software, networking or speaking ability, is capable of acting as ambassador for the Free Software movment in the same capacity? Only RMS?
You realize he's a mortal human, right? Because if your premise is that no one else can ever be worthy to replace him, your conclusion must be that the movement will die with him.
Being the person who comes up with an idea doesn't have anything to do with being good at selling the idea to other people.
If he committed something, and this something was actually a crime and not just something that some people don't like, then it is up to the court to decide about it, not Twitter mob.
Yup. And if you haven’t noticed, that is exactly who is running almost every major institution in Western society currently.
The enlightenment has died not with a bang but with a whimper.
The political commentator Dave Smith has a great point where he views “wokism” as essentially a corporate plot. Post-2008 we had hordes of angry people occupying wall street, and however ignorant the footsoldiers may have been of basic economics they left a real mark. Fast forward ten years later and the corporations, big banks, and the CIA et al have all embraced woke identity politics and here we are arguing over the usage of the singular they and trying to decide if Aunt Jemima is racist or not. Viewed through that lens, wokism is the perfect performative ritual with which to placate the masses. And the beauty is it works on both sides. The left focuses on being woke instead of opposing the wars (both foreign and domestic) and the national “security” apparatus, and the right is busy fighting against the woke while they’re banned from going to church (COVID) and while their gun rights are gradually whittled away.
Reality is obviously not that simple but there’s a real kernel of truth there.