#Stallman and to some extent the structural constitution of the #GNU project and the #FSF that solely revolves around #rms' vision of the world and society—with absolutely no room for other opinions—has always been problematic. It's indeed not new at all. It has overshadowed and prevented the development of free software to be more culturally diverse and a more politicised effort. Similarly, his dogmatic attitude has created throughout the years a situation where free software communities are having a hard time to be self critical and are effectively unable to evaluate the nature of their discourse. Ultimately, there has been increasing cognitive dissonance between the values they believe sharing and their actions, with sometimes quite aggressive response to even the slightest form of criticism and critique of anything related to software/user freedom. At best, criticism is deflected by tweaking the terminology and the language used, and if needed new definitions of words are created to defuse problematic statements. Hopefully these kind of exposures and open discussions will help move forward work on software and cultural freedom, in general, and not lead to complete implosion.
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ultrageranium (320x200)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 14:50:28 EDT ultrageranium -
Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:41:35 EDT Zed Ex Fuuma Re: #RMS
Personally, as an anti-authoritarian, I find the fact that one person can be completely in charge of a project that they no longer contribute to be preposterous. Yes, they originated the project and it is "their" project, but given that he wanted to make it available for everyone to democratically change, based on the license he himself made, it just seems ludicrous. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2017 13:00:45 EDT Free Software Foundation ATTN Saint-Etienne (FR): #RMS will be speaking next Sunday and Monday (2-3rd)! https://u.fsf.org/mr -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2017 14:12:20 EDT Free Software Foundation ATTN Sicilian #freesoftware enthusiasts: #RMS will be in Catania 5/5 and Palermo 5/6. Both events have gratis admission. https://u.fsf.org/26- -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2017 12:29:41 EST Free Software Foundation RMS Photos from his recent visit to Michigan! https://u.fsf.org/23a #RMS #OnTheRoad https://u.fsf.org/23b -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 10:21:06 EDT Free Software Foundation Photos from Libre Learn Lab, in Cambridge https://u.fsf.org/1xx #rms cc @librelearnlab https://u.fsf.org/1xz -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 10:20:02 EDT Free Software Foundation Photos from Libre Learn Lab, in Cambridge https://u.fsf.org/1xx #rms cc @libreleanlab https://u.fsf.org/1xy -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 30-Sep-2016 12:30:57 EDT Free Software Foundation RMS photo blog and ninety-nine 'purple' balloons go by ...? https://u.fsf.org/1x7 #rms https://u.fsf.org/1x8 -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2016 16:37:02 EDT Free Software Foundation New article by RMS, "When free software depends on non-free" https://u.fsf.org/1py #gnu #rms #DiachronicallyTrapped -
Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2015 11:00:25 EST Christopher M. Hobbs I watched a talk that #rms gave at #31C3 while I was folding the laundry yesterday. Definitely one of his best speaking engagements. Wish I had the storage to archive some of these sorts of videos. -
Marcus (marcus)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2015 06:48:15 EDT Marcus #RMS course is launched:
https://eliademy.com/catalog/road-to-the-free-digital-society.html
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Marcus (marcus)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2015 06:48:15 EDT Marcus #RMS course is launched:
https://eliademy.com/catalog/road-to-the-free-digital-society.html
Feel Free to Enroll! -
John Sullivan (johns)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2015 10:43:41 EDT John Sullivan "Insist on copylefting your code. Stand firm." #rms #lp2015 -
John Sullivan (johns)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2014 12:48:50 EST John Sullivan Ask your questions of #RMS in this Slashdot interview thread: http://u.fsf.org/u0 #fsf -
mjd (mjd)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2013 03:08:14 EDT mjd See, I #GNU that pun would come in handy. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/greenoid/9693327611/ #RMS vindicated again! -
mjd (mjd)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2013 03:08:14 EDT mjd See, I #GNU that pun would come in handy. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/greenoid/9693327611/ #RMS vindicated again! -
1g0r (1g0r)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2013 00:58:13 EDT 1g0r la cravate signifie: «Je serai un employé tellement servile que je suis prêt à faire des trucs complètements stupides juste parce que vous me dites de les faire.» http://s.vinilox.eu/1k6 #RMS -
1g0r (1g0r)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2013 00:58:13 EDT 1g0r la cravate signifie: «Je serai un employé tellement servile que je suis prêt à faire des trucs complètements stupides juste parce que vous me dites de les faire.» http://s.vinilox.eu/1k6 #RMS