Le 08/04/2021 à 17:00, David Brown a écrit : > At some point, someone in the public relations > department at IBM, Google, Facebook, ARM, or other big supporters of the > project will get the impression that the FSF and GNU are lead by a > misogynist who thinks child abuse is fine if the child consents, and > will cut off all support from the top down. The other companies will > immediately follow.
Here we are. The liberty of expressing opinions is too much of a liberty. This is ironical to read in a mailing list dedicated in some to a free software project. But you are wrong on a point. The bannishment or RMS isn't being called by big companies or their customers. In the same way that Donald Trump's accounts on social networks have been closed on request of employees of these networks, here the employees of the same social networks and other companies call for the bannishment of RMS. "My opinion, not my employer's" is probably true. If the majority of employees call for lynching someone, the employer let them do because s(?)he is concerned by the cash flow first, not ideology. I agree that the constitution of FSF, GNU, and GCC would gain to be clarified and cleared from some childich relics, but that doesn't mean the banishment of anyone and doesn't justify the cabal we have seen on this list. Social networks, besides their likely utility, are a place where hatred builds up pretty easily by mutual excitation because people get the illusion they're right when they're many. This has always existed amongst humans but social networks ease and boost this trend. This is one good reason to keep away. > ... no one can > be in doubt that [RMS's] attitudes and behaviour are not acceptable by > modern standards and are discouraging to developers and users in the > FOSS community. It is obviously wrong that "no one can". Several persons have expressed their disagreement whith these statements. Or do you mean "no one is allowed to"? What do you mean by "modern standards"? Do you realy think there are standards for political correctness? Is it an ISO? POSIX? IEEE? Sorry for the easy joke. Probably you could express better what you mean (~: Le 10/04/2021 à 14:50, Bronek Kozicki via Gcc a écrit : > Hello there > > As a long time GCC user, who is also a father to teenage children, I would > very much prefer if a person who openly expressed opinions, and also openly > exercised behaviours, which I consider abhorrent, was *not* associated with > the GCC project. I bet you would also prefer that this person doesn't live on the same planet as you. Sorry but this is just plain intolerance. The root of the cabal is there: intolerance. The arguments about the behaviour of RMS or the mere fact that his name appears on the web page are mostly given (conciously or not) to hide the actual mobile. -- Didier
