<div dir="ltr">I had previously discontinued my membership in the FSF for different reasons. I have come to the conclusion that the leadership at FSF was ineffectual as much as they were hostile or unwelcoming. I'm glad that RMS is out. The FOSS community has long needed a better spokesperson and maybe with luck we'll find who that person is.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Greg Rundlett<div><div><a href="https://eQuality-Tech.com" target="_blank">https://eQuality-Tech.com</a></div></div><div><a href="https://freephile.org" target="_blank">https://freephile.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:53 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Presumably you've all seen the news *somewhere* by now: there has been a major upheaval in the free-software community<br>
over the last day or so, with RMS resigning from the FSF amidst a remarkable, uh... "flurry" of controversy.<br>
<br>
Regardless of whether one cares one way or the other about RMS per se (as an actual person or an icon),<br>
or whether one thinks the organization or movement needs him in (or out of) that position...,<br>
the way that the events seem to have unfolded (or maybe "mushroomed" is a better term...)<br>
have left many people dazed and confused, and even afraid.<br>
<br>
I've taken today off from work to try to make sense out of a number of aspects of the whole episode...;<br>
if anyone else feels like getting together for dinner or something to work it out together, in person,<br>
I'm here in southern NH all day/evening. I'd really kind of like that, actually--it's been a while....<br>
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Some links in case you have managed to miss it so far...:<br>
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<a href="https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794</a><br>
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns</a><br>
<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/</a><br>
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