Notices by Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)

@MAKS23 👊

Poles make the best scrambled eggs. #French #Omelette #Sucks

@hipsterelectron The US does not have "literal slavery" -- the GNU GPL is a perfectly valid license in the EU, and the EUPL is not needed. I'm not interested in trolls and their arguments.

The FSF has never "denouounced" the FSFE. RMS is a perfectly valid candidate for the role that he serves within any free software organisation, and seeing that he has not done anything egregious in that role there is no reason to "denounce" anyone.

*plonk*

@rakoo

@hipsterelectron What "other goals"? I think supporting military and surveillance operations is important to do, and I think that our governments should be using #FreeSoftware for that.

We can just see how depending on US technology is outright harmful to the democratic rule of the whole world.

So why should military and surveillance operations not be able to use free software?

@rakoo Sorry, you're just rambling nonsense. Not the whole world is the US.

@hipsterelectron

@hipsterelectron Or rather, how does the current legal system not solve these problems? Surveillance is not a topic that should be handled by licenses, neither is military use but by a a legal framework that all democratic countries already have in place.

@hipsterelectron That would violate one of the most basic rights of software freedom, the freedom to use a program for any purpose. How do you suggest that would be reconciled?

@downey @dingemansemark Still no reply to this one .. https://discuss.opensource.org/t/results-of-election/927 @ed Why the secrecy?

@hipsterelectron Existing legal frameworks work well enough for labour protection, I think? Or do you have something specific on your mind?

@hipsterelectron Stallman hasn’t done anything wrong or egregious. The FSF is steed fast in their goal, while the OSI is not to the point of rigging elections, out right lying and what not.

@osi time for the @ed to be held accountable for rigging elections. The whole board should step down. #FLOSS #FOSS #OSI #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

7 days, and still no tally.

@sotolf @fedops I’ve built plenty of em :-)

@fedops Nice hunting tower! @sotolf

@downey @onepict @froge meh, what is wrong with the four software freedoms? #FreeSoftware

@onepict To be fair, the whole notion of #OpenSource has always been to neglect computer users right ro run, edit, contribute to, and share software. #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware

The lack of outrage that the @osi rigging election is quite pathetic .. #FreeSoftware for the win, #OpenSource misses the point. #FLOSS #FOSS #OSI #FSF #GNU

@praetor No thanks. @ksaj

@downey curious what silly reason they will have this time around …

UPDATE: This poll has been "unlisted" by OSI staff. Do they not want to hear feedback from their members about the election?

Disenfranchisement poll from @iank for #OSI members: "Was your vote in the 2025 board election thrown away?"

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/poll-was-your-vote-in-the-2025-board-election-thrown-away/943

#OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

@praetor I don’t have a config… I’ve been using eMacs for close to 40 years, just defaults…