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   Carmen Bianca BAKKER (carmenbianca@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:36:57 JST Carmen Bianca BAKKER

   https://stallman-report.org/

   The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.

   And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.

   And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.

   And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.

   But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:36:49 JST feld

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     @carmenbianca every time you share this Drew DeVault gets an ego boost
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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:37:12 JST Jay Baker

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     @carmenbianca Thank you so very much for posting this. I hope more and more people read it.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 16:22:07 JST SuperDicq

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     • Michael Potter

     @mpotter@social.coop @carmenbianca@todon.eu I agree with you the controversy is harming the FSF's reputation, but I do want to remind you that Stallman is not the one who started this controversy.

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     Michael Potter (mpotter@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 16:22:08 JST Michael Potter

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     @carmenbianca At this point, Stallman should probably step down for the good of the community. The controversy is harming the FSF's reputation, and they do have key roles in the community, such as litigating GPL violations.

     The GNU Public License is ingenious in how it protects software from Capitalistic encroachment, and I'm sure proprietary vendors would be only too happy if people were put off from using GPL offerings.

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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 17:37:01 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 (bonifartius@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 17:37:02 JST :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄

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     @carmenbianca
     > The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. [...] this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.

     without stallman there wouldn't be the "social movement for our digital liberation". almost everyone else would lack the wit to dream up free software. even less if it was the 1980s. some gratefulness for this achievement certainly is in order.

     > We are freed together as a community, not as individuals.

     freedom is by definition individualist, free software is individualist. free software is voluntary contracts between individuals.

     it's the polar opposite of any collectivist idea. it _especially_ has nothing in common with ridiculous ideas of abolishing property rights. ideas history has proven countless times to kill millions and not even work in the first place.

     > The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.

     the first is a direct consequence of the latter. the ability to study and modify software is precondition to collaboration and sharing in the realm of software.

     > There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.

     looks like judging people based on external characteristics is back on the menu!

     > But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.

     yet you comment on matters regarding RMS instead of doing these other things.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:55:46 JST tyil

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     @carmenbianca@todon.eu There are so many people (men…)Correct me if I'm wrong but are you complaining about a guy being sexist, while being sexist yourself?
     
     Since you are an FSFE board member, can we infer that the FSFE's official position is that it hates the existence of a group of people based on their sex?

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:55:51 JST tyil

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     • notanamber

     @notanamber@anticapitalista.it @carmenbianca@todon.eu "ethical source" is just a politically correct term for "proprietary software".

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     notanamber (notanamber@anticapitalista.it)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:56:06 JST notanamber

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     @carmenbianca would be more suitable something like "Ethical source": much healthier