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% Leah Rowe |
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I support freedom of speech. **Translations wanted for this article. I want |
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this news article to be available in as many languages as possible. |
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Download the Markdown file here: [rms.markdown](rms.markdown) and then |
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translate it into your language. Send the translated file to <leah@libreboot.org>** |
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2 years ago, known *Thought Criminal* Richard M Stallman was falsely accused of |
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defending *rape* in an Orwellian smear campaign, orchestrated by mainstream |
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media at the behest of proprietary software vendors. 36 years fighting |
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for *your* digital freedom, cancelled. It was so vicious that he resigned from |
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his post as president of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF did nothing to |
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protect or defend him. However, *you* can defend him! |
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On 21 March 2021, FSF board of directors re-instated Richard Stallman. In |
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response, the media started a new smear campaign. A petition was created, |
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calling for the forceful removal of RMS and the entire FSF board of directors. |
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RMS has been wrongly accused of sexism, transphobia, ableism and a whole host |
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of things intended to discredit him. Do not listen to any of it. Richard |
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Stallman's political [notes](https://www.stallman.org/archives/) and |
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[articles](https://stallman.org/#politics) paint the picture of a man who has |
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staunchly campaigned *against* bigotry in all its forms! |
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**In response, we, the Free software movement, started our own petition. We |
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wish for RMS to remain in his post, and for the FSF to hold their ground. We |
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call for the FSF to defend Richard Stallman's honour and his legacy. Richard |
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Stallman is a human being, whose right to free speech was heavily suppressed. |
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We must demonstrate our support of him to the FSF, loudly and clearly.** |
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**If you support Free Software, believe in freedom of speech, freedom of |
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community and social justice (true social justice, where a person is treated |
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with dignity and not cancelled just for their beliefs), sign your name here:** |
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**<https://rms-support-letter.github.io/>** |
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The *opposing* petition calling for Richard's removal will not be linked here, |
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because it is important not to strengthen it. Boosting the search engine |
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rankings of our opposition would only help them attack RMS. Similarly, their |
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smear campaigns will not be linked here directly, only condemned! |
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Instructions for how to sign your name are on that page. If you represent a |
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project, please put that in brackets and state your position. For instance, if |
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you are John Doe and your project is named Foobar Libre, |
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write `John Doe (Foobar Libre developer)` |
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or e.g. `John Doe (Foobar Libre founder and lead developer)`. If you are an |
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FSF member (e.g. associate member), put that in brackets too. |
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If you are a member of a project/organisation that signed the anti-RMS list, |
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it is *especially* important to state that you are from said project when |
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signing the *pro*-RMS list. You should also talk to people in your project or |
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organisation, and try to persuade them to change their minds! |
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In addition to signing your name, if you're in a software project, get your |
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project to officially come out in support of Richard! He needs every bit of |
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support we can get. We, the Free Software movement, as activists must lend him |
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all of our strength! |
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**Don't be fooled. If a Free Software project is on the anti-RMS list, that |
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just means the leadership implemented said decision. It says nothing of the |
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individuals inside said organisation.** |
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Please also *email* the FSF and tell them you support Richard! The FSF's |
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contact details are here: <https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/> |
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Our opponents wish to destroy Free Software |
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Our opponent's true target is *not* Richard Stallman; their real aim is to |
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destroy the FSF by thoroughly infiltrating it (like they already have with |
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organisations like the OSI and Linux Foundation). These people even started an |
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online petition calling for RMS's forceful removal and for the entire board of |
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directors at the FSF to resign from their posts. This is clearly an attempt |
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at a coup to overthrow the FSF! Out of fear, many known Free Software projects |
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joined in on the anti-RMS witch hunt because they did not want to |
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be *cancelled* either. **The list that attacks Richard has Microsoft, Google, |
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OSI, Linux Foundation, Gnome Foundation and Ethical Source people on it! These |
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people oppose Free Software ideologically (even if some of them do produce free |
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software sometimes, for reasons other than promoting freedom) and many of them |
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have actively sought to destroy it for years! How dare these people claim to |
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represent us!**. |
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The letter opposing RMS talks the talk, but it does not walk the walk. The |
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people on that list do *not* represent us! If you do see actual Free Software |
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developers on the list, please talk to them. Do not be hateful or spiteful, |
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just talk to them: tell them that they have been misled by a hateful campaign. |
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We need unity in our movement. You see, it's likely that a lot of people who |
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signed the opposing list were just *scared*; at the beginning, the petition |
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supporting RMS did not exist, and so it was not known how many people supported |
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RMS. In other words, many people likely signed the anti-RMS list because they |
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were scared of becoming outcasts. This is because last time, we were caught |
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off guard. We stayed silent last time, but we will not be silent this time! |
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**As of 31 March 2021, 02:50 AM UK time, we are winning! The letter calling for |
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RMS's removal has 2959 signatures. *Our* letter supporting and defending RMS |
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has 4533 signatures! That's a 60% approval rating, if you add up both numbers |
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but our petition is rising in popularity much faster while the anti-RMS |
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petition has stalled. People see that it's OK to support RMS, because it is. |
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RMS is innocent of wrongdoing!** |
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Richard Stallman is our hero |
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I strongly believe in |
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[free software ideology](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). I am the |
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founder of Libreboot, and its lead developer. When I first started using Free |
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Software as a teenager in the mid 2000s, Richard Stallman's lectures were among |
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the biggest influences on me; Richard founded |
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the [GNU project](https://www.gnu.org/) in 1983 and |
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the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/) in 1985. I also saw the |
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film *Revolution OS* and read Eric Raymond's *Cathedral and the Bazaar*. I very |
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quickly became fascinated but it was the articles by Richard on the GNU project |
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website that heavily inspired me. For a few years however, I identified as |
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an *open source supporter* until I gravitated towards the Free Software camp |
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in 2009. I had worked sysadmin and IT support jobs at companies, working mostly |
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with proprietary software including Windows, while at home I taught myself |
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programming on GNU+Linux. I hated working with proprietary systems, precisely |
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because of how restrictive they were compared to my systems at home, which all |
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ran various GNU+Linux distributions (I also toyed with OpenBSD). When I did my |
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A-Levels, I studied computing but they forced us to use the proprietary Visual |
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Studio IDE and C\#; I hated it, but coped with it by using Mono at home for |
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class assignments. It wasn't long after I joined as an FSF Associate Member in |
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2013 that my life took a huge turn, and Libreboot was a huge part of it. |
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Needless to say, I strive to eliminate my dependence on proprietary software and |
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I want others to experience such freedom aswell. |
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Richard Stallman's articles and video lectures were what led me down this path. |
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I have met the man 5 times, in 3 different countries. |
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In the early days of computing, most (if not all) software was shared freely |
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with source code. In the early 1980s, when software started becoming more |
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commercial, companies started making software *proprietary* which meant that |
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the software no longer came with source code or otherwise placed *restrictions* |
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on the use, development or sharing of that software. This meant that computer |
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users no longer had *freedom* over their computing; by the time the GNU project |
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started in 1983, *free software* did not exist! Richard Stallman, faced with |
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the possibility of making large amounts of money as a proprietary software |
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developer, staunchly resisted this trend and began the GNU project to create a |
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completely free operating system that people could run on their computers. |
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I believe in Free Software for the same reason I believe in public education; |
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I believe that knowledge is a human right. For example, I believe that all kids |
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are entitled to learn Mathematics. I believe the same thing about Computer |
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Science. Education is a human right. I want everyone to have freedom; the right |
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to read, to a community and to free speech. *Programming* counts as speech, and |
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I believe that all good work is based on the work of others; this is why the |
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right to a community is critical. The *four freedoms* are paramount. I am a |
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staunch supporter of *copyleft* and I believe that it should be mandatory, by |
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law, for all creative and/or intellectual works. I use |
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the [GNU General Public License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#GPL) whenever |
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possible, and I strongly advocate for its adoption everywhere. |
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Free software still has a *long* way to go. The mission of the GNU project and |
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the Free Software movement is to *eradicate* proprietary software in our world |
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and give everyone exclusively free software. That is a most noble mission which |
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the Libreboot project shares. Companies like Apple and Microsoft resist us at |
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every turn. Logic is highly proprietary; manufacturers of computer chips/boards |
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heavily restrict access to knowledge about how the hardware works, and they put |
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in DRM (such as cryptographic signature checks of firmware) to restrict our |
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progress; this is why Libreboot still has very weak hardware support, as of the |
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date this article is being published. *Right to repair* is a critical component |
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of our fight, in particular, as a part of the wider OSHW (Free/libre Hardware) |
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movement. Another problem we face is *serialization* of components, where the |
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same component can no longer be used to replace another, in modern devices; the |
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software on said device might check whether the new part is *authorized* and |
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refuse to work if it isn't. We in the freedom movement are under constant |
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attacks, in a legal and technical sense. Large tech companies use every dirty |
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trick in the book to thwart our efforts. |
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If it weren't for Richard Stallman's work, Libreboot would not exist. All works |
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are derivative in human society; we stand on the shoulder of giants. The GNU |
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project almost had a complete operating system, and finally they had one piece |
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missing, the *kernel*; this program sits at the heart of the operating system, |
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talking to hardware and allocating system resources, providing an interface on |
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which application software can run. GNU had started work on a kernel which they |
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called *Hurd*, but this is still far from complete as of 2021. Fortunately, |
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another project called *Linux* appeared in the early 90s and was released under |
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the GNU GPL, which meant that people were able to combine a modified GNU system |
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with Linux to create a complete operating system; the first *GNU+Linux |
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distributions* were born! It is from all of this that our movement, the Free |
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Software movement, began, and without it, I doubt we'd have such wide access to |
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free computing today. I cannot imagine a world where Libreboot and GNU do not |
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both exist. |
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Could coreboot have existed without GNU+Linux? I doubt it very much! |
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It's possible that Linux on its own may have still existed, but would it have |
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been Free Software by today? Would it have reached the level it did today? |
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In that reality, BSD projects might have taken over instead, and would they |
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have had the ideological drive to ensure that all computer users had freedom, |
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or would they simply regard the source code as a *reference* for *educational |
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purposes only*? |
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You see, Richard Stallman's work in the 80s was *revolutionary* and without him, |
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none of us would be here today. The people in charge of big tech companies like |
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Apple and Microsoft hate us, and have been attacking our movement for years. |
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That's what the attacks on RMS have been about. They do *not* care what Richard |
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did or didn't do at any given point in time. |
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Richard had been president of the Free Software Foundation since its inception |
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in 1985, spreading Free Software ideology all over the world; until, that is, |
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he was cancelled in 2019 in the most *Orwellian* smear campaign possible. |
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Anyone familiar with Libreboot probably already knows all of the above, or they |
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are familiar with the gist of it, so why am I talking about the FSF, GNU and |
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Richard Stallman today? Because of something very sinister that is currently |
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happening. |
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Don't just take my word for it. Stephen Fry, a well-known GNU+Linux user, did |
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this video in 2008 praising the GNU project and supporting Free Software: |
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<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=P_mS4CIXcLY> |
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in case it doesn't load, try this link: |
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<https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=P_mS4CIXcLY> |
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RMS is NOT transphobic |
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I've been good friends with Richard for many years. I *did* have a falling out |
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with him (publicly so) a few years ago, but we made up. He has always |
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respected me. |
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When my project, Libreboot, was in the process of joining GNU, I wasn't out as |
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trans. I came out as trans not long before Libreboot became GNU Libreboot. |
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RMS switched to she/her with me on the spot. No problems. |
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Some people have linked to the following article and suggested that he is |
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transphobic: <https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html> |
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Specifically, people believe that RMS refuses to use correct pronouns with |
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people. People believe that RMS is transphobic for saying per/perse instead of |
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accepting they/them. |
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Let me tell you something: |
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Richard sent *me* and several other people a copy of that article when he was |
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drafting it. I repeatedly urged RMS not to do per/perse when he suggested it. |
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I strongly suggested that he use they/them when referring to someone generically. |
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When he decided to use per/perse, I was annoyed but not offended; you see, I |
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regard it as *idiotic*. Clearly, they/them is commonly understood and will |
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cause the least amount of misunderstanding. |
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Being foolish is not the same thing as being transphobic. If you actually tell |
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Richard your preferred pronouns, he'll use them with you without hesitation. |
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Several of my friends are trans and also speak to Richard, mostly via email. |
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He respects their pronouns also. |
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Funnily enough, the GNU project has these guidelines about pronouns: |
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<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html> - see: |
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<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html#f1> |
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Not transphobic. At all. Same per/pers bullshit. Not transphobic, just stupid. |
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I wasn't misgendered by other GNU developers when my project, Libreboot, was |
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in GNU. Calling RMS a transphobe is an *insult* to people who suffer from real |
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Background information |
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*I could* address each specific accusation made against him, but other articles |
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already do that; those articles are written much better than anything I could |
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ever write, so please click on the links below. |
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I feel no need to re-invent the wheel. The whole purpose of this article was |
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just to express my support for Richard Stallman, and to defend his honour. His |
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time *will* end one day, and he deserves for that to come naturally. However, |
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there is still much that he can contribute! |
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The following articles more or less describe accurately what happened since |
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September 2019 when the events surrounding Richard Stallman started: |
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<https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web> |
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Here is another article expressing support for Richard, and it too has details |
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about the events that took place: |
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<https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/> |
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This video by *DistroTube* provides an excellent account of events aswell: |
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<https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/mob-mentality-threatens-the-free:b> |
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Exposing our opponents for who they are |
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Our problem, in defending Richard Stallman, is that opponents of the Free |
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Software movement have learned to co-opt our language. They talk the talk and |
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they wear the colours, but make no mistake: their actions and their intentions |
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do not reflect the ideology they claim to represent! There *are* genuinely some |
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Free Software activists and organanisations on that list, who have been misled |
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or have some other reason to oppose RMS; my focus will not be on those people, |
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but hopefully some of those people and organisations will change their mind if |
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they read what I have to say! |
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I do not subscribe to *cancel culture*. Some of these people may well try to |
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cancel *me* but I would never do the same to them. This entire article merely |
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aims to defend RMS against the vicious smear campaigns. To do that, we will |
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explore some of the people on that anti-RMS list. |
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I said I wouldn't directly link to the list calling for RMS's removal, so I |
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will print the URL below without making it a hyperlink (this prevents it from |
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being boosted in search engines). Look at the names on their list: |
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**https://rms-open-letter.github.io/** |
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Don't be fooled! The open source movement is *not* the same as the Free |
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I will focus on the people in the main list of signers, and maybe talk about |
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specific organisations (or other names) on that list. Some of them are |
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otherwise reasonable people besides their anti-RMS stance (which means they |
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were misled, most likely), whereas some people on the list are *nasty*. |
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I will jump straight into it: |
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Redhat pulling funding from FSF |
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RedHat announced, in response to RMS's re-instatement at the FSF, that they |
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would remove their funding for the FSF. They joined in on the usual smear |
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RedHat is owned by known non-free software company IBM these days. Their |
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enterprise GNU+Linux distro comes with plenty of non-free software and they |
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actively tell their customers how to get more; they do nothing to advance free |
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software and merely see it as something *they* can use. They do not believe in |
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FSF ideology. More info about the merger: <https://www.redhat.com/en/ibm> |
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Redhat *very recently* killed CentOS. CentOS was a community edition of RHEL, |
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with a strong community backing. In other words, Redhat actively took a step |
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that *hurts* the community. More info: |
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<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/> |
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Look at that: |
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<https://www.ibm.com/products/software> |
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Does this look like a company that cares about Free Software? |
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Why should we care what RedHat thinks? If they pull funding, that's one less |
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corrupting influence to worry about! Redhat does not believe in free software |
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(they may have believed in open source at one point, but that time is probably |
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long gone now that they've been bought by IBM) |
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OSI is short for *Open Source Initiative*. This organisation started as an |
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They say a picture speaks a thousand words: |
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From left to right, their names (all prominent OSI leaders/influencers), where |
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left is *your* left and *their* right (for the phono in the photos) are: |
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Back row: Faidon Liambotis, Chris Lamb, Simon Phipps, Allison Randal, Molly de Blanc, Patrick Masson |
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Front row: Josh Simmons, VM Brasseur, Carol Smith, Italo Vignoli, Richard Fontana. |
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All of these people are highly influential at the OSI. Several former presidents. |
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Does this look strange to you? Look where they are. The photo comes from this |
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news article: <http://techrights.org/2020/01/15/osi-board-at-microsoft/> |
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(archive: <http://web.archive.org/web/20200121042512/http://techrights.org/2020/01/15/osi-board-at-microsoft/>) |
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Microsoft is a major sponsor of the OSI. OSI themselves have an article on |
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their website, stating this: <https://opensource.org/node/901> |
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(archive: <http://web.archive.org/web/20201112022740/https://opensource.org/node/901>) |
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When your organisation starts to depend on large amounts of funding by |
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companies like Microsoft (who have rigorously *attacked* Free Software *and* |
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Open Source for years), you are *going* to lose sight of some of your ideals. |
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You will lose some of that *spark* you previously had in you. You will start |
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doing what your donors tell you, because you fear the loss of that funding. |
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Microsoft, over the years, has dived into their version of what they regard as |
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*open source*; in reality, it's just *openwashing* (like whitewashing, but with |
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Open Source perspective instead), and Microsoft's core products such as Windows |
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are still very much non-free! Microsoft still campaigns hard for *your* lack of |
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freedom by getting more and more computers locked down with things like |
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SecureBoot and cryptographically signed firmware. |
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So if Microsoft has hated Richard Stallman for years, and wanted to destroy him |
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for years, and Microsoft has financial influence at the Open Source Initiative, |
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on organization that could *somewhat credibly* speak Free Software lingo, would |
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that not be the best thing ever for Microsoft? Imagine being Microsoft. You'd |
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jump at the opportunity, right? Someone tell me I'm not the only one here. |
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Even if Microsoft wasn't heavily attached to the OSI, would the OSI have any |
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right using the language of Free Software while claiming to be a part of our |
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community? Open source is not a part of the Free Software movement! It is an |
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ideological competitor to Free Software. |
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Fun fact: |
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The OSI recently banned Eric S Raymond (co-founder of the OSI) from their |
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mailing lists, after certain comments he made defending the OSI against |
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infiltration by the *Ethical Source* movement and against oppressive codes of |
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conducts that stifle free speech. Despite the name, Ethical Source |
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licenses are in fact *non-free* because they put restrictions on usage of the |
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software; if the author of such software disagrees with your political views, |
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they can ban you from using the software. This is wrong! People like Coraline |
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Ada Ehmke (leader of Ethical Source movement) were trying to influence the OSI |
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so as to re-write the *Open Source Definition*. This video provides some nice |
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introductory information: |
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<https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/founder-of-open-source-is-banned-by-open:7> |
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In the OSI's case, they probably won't let Eric back in; though even if I |
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disagree with Open Source (I'm a Free Software activist), Open Source isn't at |
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a bad thing per se, just ideologically lacking; Ethical Source people like |
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Coraline Ada Ehmke will cause extreme amounts of damage if they get their way |
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(they've already infiltrated several well-known Free Software and Open Source |
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aligned projects by getting them to introduce a Code of Conduct; Libreboot |
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recently came to the good sense to scrap its Code of Conduct, which was none |
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other than Coraline's Contributor Covenant) |
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Everyone should send Eric Raymond a supportive email. He did the right thing. |
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Tell him you care. I've never heard anything especially horrible about him. |
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He's very reasonable and a nice person; outspoken and unfiltered while still |
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being respectful (in my opinion, having read some of his articles), which is |
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quite refreshing. |
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Microsoft employees |
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Yes, Microsoft employees are on the anti-RMS list. |
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*What business do these people have lecturing us about Free Software ideals or |
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Microsoft is a mortal enemy of the Free Software movement. Microsoft isn't |
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foolish enough to sign their entire company name onto the list, because then |
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that would be game over for the anti-RMS campaign; so instead, they use their |
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corrupting influences at various organisations that supposedly represent us. |
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If I were Microsoft, I'd ask these people to remove their names from the list. |
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It actually hurts their anti-RMS efforts, for such people to have their |
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position at Microsoft stated like this, even if it's just a few people. |
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None of their people on this list seem to be high up at Microsoft. I would be |
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inclined to believe that they published their names independently, without |
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direction. No sane Microsoft boss would want Microsoft listed on that page, in |
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any capacity! |
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Gnome Foundation (has been deeply connected to Microsoft) |
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NOTE: Do not confused the Gnome *community* with the Gnome *Foundation*. They |
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are *very* different things! |
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There are well-known connections between members of the Gnome Foundation with |
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Microsoft. Here is an article: |
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<http://web.archive.org/web/20200607212123/http://techrights.org/2020/06/07/gnome-board-of-directors-2020/> |
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They have been attacking RMS for years: |
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<http://techrights.org/2021/01/12/gnome-foundation-rms/> |
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So, of course, it's not credible for these people to represent themselves on |
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behalf of the Free Software movement! |
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The following Gnome Foundation members are on the core signers list of the |
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anti-RMS petition, and associated with the Gnome Foundation: |
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* Molly de Blanc (Debian Project, GNOME Foundation) **(also associated with OSI)** |
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* Neil McGovern (GNOME Foundation Executive Director, Former Debian Project Leader) |
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* Luis Villa (Former Director of the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation; contributor to the GPL v3 drafting process) |
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In other cases, I wouldn't choose to list names, but Neil and Molly are two of |
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the people with push/pull/review rights on the anti-RMS github site. I feel the |
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need to mention their names; see also that they are both members of the Debian |
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Coraline Ada Ehmke (Founder, Organization for Ethical Source) |
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Coraline is the founder of the *Ethical source* movement. Despite the name, it |
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is actually distributing *non-free* licenses; non-free because they put |
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restrictions on the usage of software licensed under it. If you use software |
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under one of those licenses, and the author disagrees with you politically, |
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the author can ban you from using that software. |
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I for one believe in freedom! I want freedom for *everyone*, including those |
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whom I politically disagree with! |
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Discriminating based on someones beliefs is always wrong. No ifs, no buts. |
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I want my *political opponents* to have freedom, because: |
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* If I were able to take away my enemy's freedom, they could take away mine. |
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* If my enemy were able to take away my freedom, I could take away theirs. |
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Coraline is also quite abusive online. There are numerous accounts of her |
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terrorizing companies/projects, acting like a bully. There's a chance that she |
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might even target the Libreboot project, if someone tells her of this article. |
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She is a horrible person. |
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She's more well known for the Contributor Covenant, a template code of conduct |
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that some projects use. We in Libreboot recommend that you do not have a code |
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of conduct, because it alienates new contributors and creates a self-censored |
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environment where people feel unable to express their views about issues; you |
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see, freedom of speech is healthy, and it's quite common sense to just deal |
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with bad behaviours. Contributor Covenant is a trojan horse; that's what they |
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push on you first, and then they'll recommend you use an Ethical Source license. |
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Once you take your first dose of Ethical Source, they'll sink their claws into |
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your project. Do not let these types of people infiltrate your project! |
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Do not listen to Coraline Ada Ehmke or anyone like her! She is fuelled by |
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hatred and bigotry *herself*. She is completely intolerant of other people's |
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views and regularly tries to *destroy* people she disagrees with. |
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Conclusion |
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That's all! |
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Defend RMS! |
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% Защитите Ричарда Столлмана! |
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% Leah Rowe |
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% 31 March 2021 |
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Я поддерживаю свободу слова. |
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Два года назад известный **мыслепреступник** Ричард М. Столлман был ложно обвинён в оправдании *изнасилования* в клеветнической кампании в Оруэлловском стиле, дирижируемой крупными медиа по указке производителе проприетарного ПО. 36 лет борьбы за *вашу* цифровую свободу — отменены. это было настолько мерзко, что он ушёл с поста президента Фонда СПО. ФСПО ничего не сделал для его защиты. Но *вы* можете защитить его! |
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21 марта 2021, совет директоров ФСПО восстановил Ричарда Столлмана в должности. В ответ, СМИ начали кампанию очернения. Была создана петиция, призывающая к устранению Столлмана и всего совета директоров ФСПО. РМС был ошибочно обвинён в сексизме, трансфобии, эйллизме и огромной кучи вещей, нацеленных на его дискредитацию. Не слушайте ничего из этого. В политических [заметках](https://www.stallman.org/archives/) и [статьях](https://stallman.org/#politics) Ричарда Столлмана вырисовывается портрет человека, решительно выступающего *против* фанатизма во всех его формах! |
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**В ответ мы, Движение за Свободное ПО, запустили свою петицию. Мы хотим, чтоб РМС остался на своём посту, и чтоб ФСПО держали оборону. Мы призываем ФСПО защитить честь и наследение Ричарда Столлмана. Ричард Столлман — человек, чьё право на свободу слова было грубо подавлено. Мы должны продемонстрировать свою поддержку Ричарда Столлмана Фонду СПО, громко и ясно.** |
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**Если вы поддерживаете Свободное ПО, верите в свободу слова, свободу сообщества и социальную справедливость (настоящую социальную справедливость, где к личности относятся достойно и не "отменяют" просто за её убеждения), поставьте подпись здесь:** |
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**<https://rms-support-letter.github.io/>** |
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Ссылка на петицию *противников*, призывающих к устранению Столлмана, не будет размещена здесь, ибо очень важно не придавать ей дополнительного веса. Продвижение ссылки в поисковых движках только поможет им атаковать РМС. По той же причине не будет и прямых ссылок на кампанию очернения, только её осуждение! |
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Инструкции по подписанию петиции размещены по ссылке выше. Если вы представляете какой-либо проект, пусть ваш проект официально выступит в поддержку Ричарда! Ему нужна каждая капля поддержки, которую мы можем дать. Мы, Движение за Свободное ПО, должны предоставить ему всю свою мощь! |
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**Не дайте себя обмануть. Если в списке противников РМС присутствует Свободный проект, это означет лишь, что его лидеры приняли указанное решение. Это не говорит ничего о людях внутри организации.** |
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Пожалуйста, отправьте также письмо в ФСПО и расскажите в нём о своей поддержке Ричарда! Контакты ФСПО — здесь: <https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/> |
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Наши противники желают уничтожить Свободное ПО |
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Истинная цель наших оппонентов — *не* Ричард Столлман, их истинная цель — уничтожить ФСПО через внедрение (как они уже поступили с такими организациями как OSI и Linux Foundation). Эти люди также организовали петицию, призывающую к принудительной отставке РМС всего совета директоров ФСПО. Это очевидная попытка переворота внутри FSF! Забудьте страх, многие известные Свободные проекты присоединились к охоте на ведьм, потому что боятся быть *отменёнными* заодно с РМС. **Список атакующих Ричарда включает в себя людей из Microsoft, Google, OSI, Linux Foundation, Gnome Foundation и Ethical Source! Эти люди — идеологические противники СПО (даже если некоторые из них порой порой производят свободное ПО по причинам, далёким от продвижения идей Свободы), и многие из них активно стремились уничтожить его годами! Как смеют эти люди пытаться говорить за нас!**. |
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Письмо против РМС — собака, лающая на караван. Люди из этого списка *не* представляют нас! Если вы общаетесь с реальными разработчиками СПО из списка, пожалуйста, поговорите с ними. Без ненависти и злобы, просто поговорите: расскажите, что они введены в заблуждение кампанией ненависти. Нашему движению нужно единство. По-видимому, множество людей подписали эту петицию просто из *страха*, поначалу-то петиции в поддержку Столлмана не существовало, и они просто не знали, сколько народу его поддерживает. Другими словами, многие подписали петицию против РМС, просто, чтоб не стать изгоем. Это потому, что нас застали врасплох в прошлый раз. Тогда мы промолчали, но сейчас молчать не будем! |
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**По состоянию на 31 марта 2021, 02:50 по британскому времени, мы побеждаем! Письмо с призывом отставки РМС набрало 2959 подписей. *Наше* письмо в поддержку и защиту РМС — 4533! Это 60% рейтинг одобрения, если сложить эти числа, но наша петиция набиарет популярность быстрее, в то время как петиция противников приостановилась. Люди видят, что это нормально — поддерживать РМС, потому что это так и есть. РМС ни в чём не виноват!** |
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Ричард Столлман — наш герой |
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Я глубоко верю в [идеологию Свободного ПО](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). Я основатель проекта Libreboot, и его основной разработчик. Когда я, подростком, начала пользоваться СПО, в 2000х, лекции Ричарда Столлмана оказали на меня огромное влияние; Ричард основал [GNU project](https://www.gnu.org/) в 1983 и [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/) в 1985. Я также смотрела фильм *Revolution OS* и читала *Собор и Базар* Эрика Рэймонда. Я очень быстро была очарована, но были и статьи Ричарда на сайте проекта GNU, что сильно меня вдохновили. Тем не менее, несколько лет я считала себя *сторонником open source*, пока меня не занесло на на Free Software camp в 2009. А работала сисадмином и техподдержкой в компаниях, использовавших в основном проприетарный софт, включая Windows, в то время как дома училась программировать под GNU+Linux. Я ненавидела работать с проприетарными системами, в первую очередь из-за того, как сильно они ограничивали мои возможности в сравнении с системами, стоявшими у меня дома, каждая из которых работала на различных дистрибутивал GNU+Linux (ну, ещё я игралась с OpenBSD). В начале обучения компьютерному ремеслу меня заставляли использовать проприетарные Visual Studio и C\#; я ненавидела это, но обходилась использованием Mono дома для выполнения домашних заданий. Вскоре после того, как я присоединилась к FSF как Associate Member в 2013, моя жизнь совершила крутой поворот, и немалую роль в нём сыграл Libreboot. Не стоит и говорить, что я стремилась устранить свою зависимости от проприетарного ПО и хотела дать и остальным это ощущение свободы. |
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