* Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> [2019-10-12 11:36]: > David <postmas...@customer-opinions.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 21:11:51 +0300 Dmitry > > Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> You replied privately, offlist. Was it intentional? If yes, why: I see > >> nothing secret there? > > > > Absolutely yes, and I did so as your mail to me was private. > > I’m sure it was not. :-)
Then maybe I forgot to press "g" in mutt. > >> If no, may I resent it back to the list? > > > > If someone sends me a private mail I follow suit but I've nothing whatever > > to hide on this topic. > > I am interpreting this as ‘yes’. My opinion related to GNU Project is public. In my opinion, what happened is very same thing that Dr. Richard Stallman already tried to say to somebody else: Look here: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ "The injustice is in the word "assaulting". The term "sexual assault" is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X." What happened is this: Dr. Richard Stallman had some opinion not relevant to GNU Project free operating system, and not relevant to FSF, and not relevant to free software movement. Somebody (probably on medium.com) has facilitated accusation inflation by taking claims that RMS did X and have been leading people to think of it as Y which is much worse than X. Media has picked it up. Few of purely technical and not free software movement ideological members such as Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo have further facilitated accusation inflation by taking claims that RMS did X and are now loading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X. In my opinion those people who signed the defamatory and libelous generalizations here https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ shall basically either remove their feminist politics that they are trying to introduce to GNU Project and Guix operating system, or they shall be removed from GNU Project. Why I say so? It impacts freedom zero "The freedom to run the program as you wish" in the sense that indirectly calls for users to either agree to this or that other viewpoint but free software viewpoint. We have free software community build around GNU for reason that GNU Project was always politically independent. Dr. Richard Stallman installed "The freedom to run the program as you wish" with the full knowledge that such software can be run by anyone for whatever purposes, which also implies: for purposes of genetical engineering of babies, for purposes of wars, making wars and preventing wars, for purposes of sex or elimination of sex, for purposes of slander, defamation, or social betterment projects, free software may be used as you wish, for purposes of helping people and purposes of killing people. Thus the GNU Project and GNU website was always apolitical in any sense. We got now few people like Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo, and few others, be it 25 I do not know, who think that other social agenda, beyond free software is more important for GNU project but free software being apolitical and independent of those views. That is what really happened. It requires some clarity to be issued or enforced by GNU project, as simple as that. The matter can be cleaned. I don't care what people think of RMS beyond the GNU.ORG website, but I do care if GNU.ORG and GNU Projects become platform for their whatever political views others but free software politics. Stallman keeps his blog on www.stallman.org that is why it is personal blog and not GNU.ORG or FSF.ORG neither any of their subdomains. Ludovic Courtès is afraid to publish his opinion on his personal pages, because that would impact him so much, that is why he asked for "collective" support. He would otherwise lose ground for whatever he was doing in Guix, Guile and so on, everything comes back to him. Same for Andy Wingo who knows nothing but to whine about Stallman without mentioning even one fact. People are speaking out in defense of GNU Project and defense of Richard Stallman: My Thoughts on the Richard Stallman "Scandal" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF17TbbBcE MIT scientist Richard Stallman taken down by vicious media smears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbQ1kc1vQU There are thousands comments supporting GNU and also being afraid of GNU project future without RMS. Few "GNU maintainers" such as Ludovic Courtès and his Andy Wingo friend, who are friends in France, country known for historical censorship[1], are forming a Thoughtpolice Squad[2] for thoughtcrime[3] of RMS. GNU project and any of GNU project pages, shall not push forward ANY KIND OF POLITICS other but free software. GNU Project was always apolitical and will remain so, and if it does not, I will take over all writings and policies of RMS and continue with it being independent of any politics other but free software. Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo and few others are introducing politics into GNU Project, not other way around. RMS is not introducing any politics into view project. They are introducing fear, uncertainty and doubt into Guix free system distribution, and not other way around. Shall we now look into instances where somebody is against Islam, and then bash Moslem software developers? No. We respect all religions and everything else in GNU project, we don't mind. It is impacting freedom zero if we do. Shall we now look into instances where somebody uses GNU software for wars in middle east or anywhere else? No, GNU project shall remain independent of other politics but free software, as it would otherwise impact freedom zero. Shall we look upon various views of gender related issues and bash people over how they declare genders? No, GNU project shall remain independent, and it was always independent, and we shall respect all people regardless of their political views, personal views, religion and so on. GNU Project is about providing free software system, not about introducing "feminism" or whatever politics they want to introduce into GNU project and have all people agree to their politics. None of them on the list on that Guix page have done "free software speeches", they have done speeches about the software itself, but did not promote freedom, GNU, GPL or similar. They are opportunists by definition. 1. opportunist, self-seeker -- (a person who places expediency above principle) They, Ludovic Courtès, Andy Wingo, and others who are introducing the politics other but free software, into the free software movement, shall go, and not RMS. Jean Footnotes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#France [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime
