Thank you very much for your references and anecdotes, FAIF (I don't know your name). They are great help.
I do agree that Stallman is stubborn. But, as all of us, has a right to think any way he pleases. I think that he is very open to new evidence. He does not, nevertheless, change his mind easily. He also abuses the love people have for him and treats enemies more amicably than people that are close. That might be the cause these people turn to enemies. It is just a communication problem and a policy problem of such a big organization as the FSF. It could be solved by administrative measures that RMS does not want to implant into it. The people that have taken over the FSF such as John Sullivan and Zoe do not care about freedom as RMS does. All they want is to grow the numbers in their yearly reports. They will not give prompt responses or consider opinions as seriously as RMS does. Perhaps RMS puts too much pressure on them. I have no idea. I can only report on my own experiences with J.S., Zoe and RMS. Creating another organization is OK. Stallman would support it, if it supports freedom. I don't think he would fund it. But I do think he would promote its objectives. Alexandre Oliva and I from FSFLA do support RMS and his mission. I do support hardware freedom or free hardware designs (as he wants to call them). And I think that, even if they are exponentially more complicated than software, hardware designs should be a human right ... in a similar way that the components of food are detailed in the ingredients. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
