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diff --git a/microposts/stallmansupport.org b/microposts/stallmansupport.org index eb7b2a3..47f08a3 100644 --- a/microposts/stallmansupport.org +++ b/microposts/stallmansupport.org @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Other organisations also joined in, including Software Freedom Conservancy, Free These groups and people refused to engage in discussions and some outright censored disagreements on this matter. -It was a religious inquisition, a lynch mob, and a textbook case of ritual defamation. It damaged the free software movement and harmed the Free Software Foundation. The management team resigned, leaving the organisation in a bad shape, which was likely capitalised by opportunists in the GCC Steering Committee to Stallman, and remove the copyright assignment requirement from the project without community consultation, which further set a precedence and other GNU projects were planning on a similar move. The dilution of copyright will make GPL enforcement harder for these projects. +It was a religious inquisition, a lynch mob, and a textbook case of ritual defamation. It damaged the free software movement and harmed the Free Software Foundation. The management team resigned, leaving the organisation in a bad shape, which was likely capitalised by opportunists in the GCC Steering Committee to remove Stallman, and remove the copyright assignment requirement from the project without community consultation, which further set a precedence and other GNU projects were planning on a similar move. The dilution of copyright will make GPL enforcement harder for these projects. I condemn the defamatory attacks and [[https://rms-support-letter.github.io/][support Richard M. Stallman]] and I hope you join me. Please see also https://stallmansupport.org. + +P.S. Alexandre Oliva wrote [[http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2021-03-28-pursuing-justice-and-freedom.en.html][a very insightful piece on the drama]]. |