bump, to the last post, his website was vandalized, a few posts making fun of him appeared, but he has since moved his site off of FSF servers and onto GNU servers
theres a bit of a conspiracy going on right now, theres some chick Sarah Mei whos been very vocal about all this,one of the leaders in the movement against Stallman, and shes trying to bring down the entire FSF board heres one of her latest tweets https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1178071229493723137
Quote: Sarah Mei Said: Does the @fsf want to actually be effective at fighting for software freedom? This is how they do it:
1. Remove Stallman as head of the GNU project, or cut their ties to it. 2. Replace the entire board.
Removing Stallman from the FSF was a big enough blow for the Free Software movement, he repeatedly reminded us of the four freedoms of Free Software and their importance of them in having control over our computing and he did it in a easy to understand way. No one else will as autiscally drill the point home like he did, or with the same conviction. She also now wants him removed from the head of the GNU project, I dont know what will happen when hes kicked off that, I know hes vetoed stuff in the past, for example when people started complaining of the Abortion joke in Glibc He vetoed it and kept it in, I personally think it should be removed, not because it offended anyone, but because documentation should be straight forward and not have you guessing, but whatever, thats just a popular story, Im sure he has vetoed a lot more important but boring stuff
another thing Stallman fought against is SaSS (Service as a Software Substitute) thats where you send your data to a server to be manipulated by a program running on the server(example: microsoft office 365 or google apps) it's incompatible with freedom because you dont have control over the code, even if the code is Free Software you cant prove that the published code is the same code being run on the servers, ie: it could be doing more then what it tells you its doing.
This is where the conspiracy comes in, Sarah Mei's employer is a company called Salesforce, Salesforce is trying to turn computing solely into SaaSS services, in the past they literally vowed to destroy software and have everything in the cloud, this is 100% everything Stallman and the FSF are against, so the conspiracy is that Sarah Mei is being paid or encouraged by her employer to bring down the FSF, who is the biggest vocalist against SaaSS
at this point I have no hope for the future of Free Software, I fear something bad is going to happen to it in the next 5 years, thats like 30 years of (IMO) the best thing to happen to computers blown away by one autistic man who started it all, having controversial opinions on his personal blog and in private emails
This Sarah Mei character also stated, that the FSF promotes software licenses that give Stallman power, which isnt true, the licenses give Stallman power in no such way
if the FSF board gets removed, they might start advocating non-GNU software licenses, that would be a huge red-fag, If Stalman is removed from the leader of GNU, they may try to come up with a GPLv4 that attacks our freedom in some such way, we would have to be vary cautious against this sort of tactic, and continue using GPLv2(which I belive Linux is licensed under, but dosnt prevent Tivoization)or GPLv3 licenses which is similar to the last license, but prevents Tivoization
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And I don't know what the mantis is praying for
But he's probably just thanking the Lord
That he don't live in a home
And he don't got a phone
And he don't sit around all angry and bored
(He's just a bug)
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