[kwlug-disc] Richard Stallman announcing his return to the FSF's Board of Directors

[Mikalai Birukou]

The following tweet has some context that would've been more private if 
the second coming didn't happen: 
https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1374499598853545986

You'd ask why people put up with nonsense. Some union protection. Okay. 
Now it is less magic.

> TL;DR I am disappointed that the FSF has re-instated RMS, and
> particularly in this way. I will be dropping my FSF membership for the
> moment.
>
> I will be emailing the FSF to explain why I am dropping the membership.
> I still support Free Software so I will be increasing my donation to
> Software Freedom Conservancy, since they support similar ideals.
>
> For anyone else who feels similarly there is also a petition/open letter
> which you can sign.
>
> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/
>
>
>
> And for anyone who would like to keep reading...
>
> I greatly appreciate the work that RMS has done. When he is talking
> about software freedom he says things that are true and useful and
> important.
>
> I appreciate that he created the GPL and started the free software movement.
>
> But that does not make it necessary to tolerate bad behaviour.
> Particularly when it is behaviour that has been explained to him many
> times over the years, by friends and allies, and he has specifically
> chosen not to make any change.
>
>> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1373904938376466433/pu/vid/1280x720/9h9mG0K-qpfh8XFj.mp4?tag=12
> His return announcement only emphasizes a continued lack of judgement,
> both on the part of RMS and the rest of the FSF leadership.
>
> He says that he is back and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
> No acknowledgement of the problems or anything that he might change.
> And neither he nor the FSF seem to have put in the time and effort to
> craft either the process or messaging around this return.
>
> I am left disappointed in the behaviour of people whose work and ideals
> I value. And I think RMS and FSF are making it more difficult to promote
> those ideals.
>
>
> Andrew
>
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Mikalai Birukou
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