On 06/03/2022 07:10, netcitizen wrote: > > > On Friday, 4. March 2022 20:12, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > > This is the message I sent to RMS. > > ***** > > I want to think you got explicit permission to post those messages here. > > By the way, did FSFLA ever published something about Stallman's > cancelation in 2019 or 2021? I haven't seen any, but maybe there is. > > Regarding my rather blunt response about RMS and LP, I was shocked by > your justification for not speaking up, but that is only because I tend > to judge things according to my own values. I would swim oceans across > and climb mountains on bare feet to help a friend in need. To put it on > a more realistic scenario, I would even use some non-free tool. In fact, > even Stallman had to do it in order to help us; we wouldn't have GNU > otherwise. > > "In 1983 I decided to develop the GNU operating system, as a free > replacement for Unix. The feasible way to do it was to write and test > the components one by one on Unix. But was it legitimate to use Unix for > this? And was it legitimate to ask others to use Unix for this, given > that Unix was proprietary software? [....] The conclusion I reached was > that using Unix to put an end to the use of Unix was legitimate for me > to suggest to other developers. I likened it to participating in small > ways in some evil activity, such as a criminal gang or a dishonest > political campaign, in order to expose it and shut it down."
RMS has written an uncannily accurate description of the FSFE - when exactly did he write those words? -- Debian Developer https://danielpocock.com _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
