FSF Adopts A Board Member Agreement, Code of Ethics For Board Members

[L_A_G]

The FSF is just an SJW mouthpiece now isn't it? Nothing more? This is what it's been reduced to in Stallman's absence isn't it? No more 'free software' foundation, just 'free politics' foundation now?

The fact that they failed to get Richard out totally does speak to the argument that they never really ran things and with the meltdown and resignations following his return (taking on the, frankly hilarious, title of "Chief gnuisance") they basically purged themselves out of the organization. This is unfortunately necessary damage control for the damage they did with all the false allegations they made on their way out of the door.

Unfortunately for Richard he's someone who's very easy to hate and demonize. Him being a very friendly person really doesn't play well with women when he's also physically repulsive and neither does the fact that having been in the scene since the late 1970s he's obviously said and thought a lot of things that were perfectly normal back then, but aren't considered acceptable anymore. Particularly among the more puritan-minded elements of the scene, which already tried to force him into retirement.

[Old Grouch]

I think Phoronix shouldn't post these articles about the FSF, no one here is interested by any extent to the meaning, or the value, of free software and ethics applied to the software as well as in the IT ecosystem and related work places.

Any article ends in free offenses against the FSF and the people that work or support it.

My 'mother tongue' is English as spoken in the UK, and I have extensive experience working with people around the world whose mother tongues were not English, nevertheless, I can't parse this. Would someone be so kind as to clarify the meaning?

One thing I would point out: claiming to speak for everyone on this forum is rather a broad claim, and would require quite strong evidence of its correctness.

[chocolate]

Shouldn't his offenses be brought to light?

Yes. In fact, let's do it right now.
Here is a comprehensive list of crimes he committed, backed by factual evidence:

[leo_sk]

Shouldn't his offenses be brought to light? How do you or organizations get better at something - learn where you are falling short and take the necessary steps to address discovered shortcomings.

Lots of medicines taste like crap but in the end they do fix ailments !

Medicines taste like crap, and so do most poisons. The entire debacle has been led by sjws and ethical source people who have nothing good to do but ride on the success of free and open source and politicise it uselessly and divide the community into parts that will then inevitably die gradually

[Shiba]

Shouldn't his offenses be brought to light?

The only valid accusation made against him is that he's obnoxious, everything else is pure defamation. That's how rotten this community has become.

[xhustler]

Somehow all news I've heard about FSF over this year are some bs waste of time code of ethics nonsense that's very poorly thought out, and Richard Stallman getting kicked out of his own organization by sjws.... I suppose with the latter, the former isn't really much surprise, I mean...


The FSF is just an SJW mouthpiece now isn't it? Nothing more? This is what it's been reduced to in Stallman's absence isn't it? No more 'free software' foundation, just 'free politics' foundation now?

Shouldn't his offenses be brought to light? How do you or organizations get better at something - learn where you are falling short and take the necessary steps to address discovered shortcomings.

Lots of medicines taste like crap but in the end they do fix ailments !

[Danielsan]

I think Phoronix shouldn't post these articles about the FSF, no one here is interested by any extent to the meaning, or the value, of free software and ethics applied to the software as well as in the IT ecosystem and related work places.

Any article ends in free offenses against the FSF and the people that work or support it.

[cl333r]

Still they manage the kernel.org website, the kernel bugzilla (horribly), tons of kernel git repositories, bugzilla, multiple Linux mailing lists, etc.

Which is peanuts for Linux interested corporations to take over.

[birdie]

The truth is we can live and prosper without the FSF. There's plenty of Licenses and organizations to choose from. And plenty of money too thanks to corporations which are paying for almost anything good happening to Linux these days.

Still they manage the kernel.org website, the kernel bugzilla (horribly), tons of kernel git repositories, bugzilla, multiple Linux mailing lists, etc.

[cl333r]

Somehow all news I've heard about FSF over this year are some bs waste of time code of ethics nonsense that's very poorly thought out, and Richard Stallman getting kicked out of his own organization by sjws.... I suppose with the latter, the former isn't really much surprise, I mean...


The FSF is just an SJW mouthpiece now isn't it? Nothing more? This is what it's been reduced to in Stallman's absence isn't it? No more 'free software' foundation, just 'free politics' foundation now?

The truth is we can live and prosper without the FSF. There's plenty of Licenses and organizations to choose from. And plenty of money too thanks to corporations which are paying for almost anything good happening to Linux these days.