Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> writes: > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 08:54:57PM -0500, quil...@riseup.net wrote: > >> I mean that a community which was backing Richard Stallman and his quest >> of freedom is being programatically taken over by someone who opposes >> him and conflates his opinions with rape. Yes, I believe that is you. >> I believe that people who do really care about freedom would handle the >> issue in a different way and would not support this puppety move from >> corporations.i > > I don't believe that I've ever conflated his opinions with rape? It's > possible that I've been careless with wording at some point, but while I > may disagree with Stallman on multiple points I wouldn't categorise any > of those as amounting to sex crimes. I will say that I've spent > extensive amounts of time working with him to attempt to help him > understand why some of his behaviour hurts free software rather than > helping it, and was only willing to take this step because I saw no > other viable approach.
Conflating accusations against Applebaum and the quest for the removal of Stallman does not atract more users to the free software movement. If I were to weigh how much hurt Red Hat, Google and Cannonical (your past employers) have done to the free software community and with which you have collaborated, I would say it would be better to remove you instead of him. > I also disagree with the claim that I've "taken over" this community in > any way. As I said, I believe that functional representation of this > community requires at least three people, and I've asked Daniel to give > me access to the blog in order to broadcast an appeal for people who'd > be willing to assist in that. I'm not proposing to unilaterally appoint > people, but in the absence of anyone else who was willing to stand for > election we clearly need to find some way to identify potential > candidates. Nobody can represent me but myself. And I would not have you represent me, even if I had to. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
