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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:18:59 JST Matthew Garrett

   It's taken a while for me to figure out why https://www.fsf.org/news/anchoring-the-fsf-in-its-values bothered me so much, and in the end I think it's that the FSF doesn't recognise its unique position in the free software community. Sure, if people sufficiently disagree with the FSF they could start up their own foundation - but the FSF has unique control over the GPL, one of the bedrocks of free software

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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:26:55 JST mhoye

   Reading this strange, strangely defensive press release - https://www.fsf.org/news/anchoring-the-fsf-in-its-values - you pretty much have to assume that the results of their board review process - https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-associate-members-to-assist-in-review-current-board-members - are going to be announced in the next little while, and that announcement is going to read "we're holding nobody accountable and changing nothing, which goes against the wishes of everyone who spoke up", so the FSF has decided to preemptively explain Why That's Good Actually.