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   Dr. Matt Lee looking for work (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:34:38 JST Dr. Matt Lee looking for work

   • Arne Babenhauserheide

   @ArneBab Most people at the FSF aren’t working on GNU except keeping some infrastructure online. Much of the work is done by volunteers.

   The reality is that the FSF has some good people but they’re hampered by the fact Stallman has ruined the FSF and copyleft for many of the people who used to be supporters.

   FSF finances took a hit in the last few years because of his actions.

   Where is this “GNU OS”? Why the insistence on arguing about the name of Linux? All of that eats at any good will.

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     Dr. Matt Lee looking for work (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 10:37:14 JST Dr. Matt Lee looking for work

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     I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.

     I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at a moment's notice and live in the US.

     So other than the GPL what has he done since 1998 (generous) that wasn't complaining about the name of Linux? The FSF has done quite a lot when he didn't interfere.

     Kit Rhett Aultman repeated this.
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     Dr. Matt Lee looking for work (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 10:58:25 JST Dr. Matt Lee looking for work

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     And let's be very clear: GPLv3 was a huge international effort from lots and lots of people, it was not Stallman writing a new license in Emacs and putting it on the website.