Re: FSF/GNU future without RMS, my opinion

[Jean Louis]

Hello rmssupport,

Let me comment on this one.

* rmssupport <address@hidden> [2019-10-10 22:11]:
> Precisely the Free Software Force born in response to the situation mentioned 
> here.
> 
> https://fsforce.noblogs.org/

In regards to following:

> We also criticize the role played by the Free Software Foundation, its
> management team has unpity assumed the resignation of a person who has
> made an unjust decision as a result of unjust persecution (they have
> not even published a minimal public statement showing their regret or
> discomfort about it). Moreover, the Free Software Foundation has not
> broken but maintains the relationship with Software Freedom
> Conservancy that has promoted the persecution of Richard Stallman,
> even the current Executive Director maintains his public support for
> Software Freedom Conservancy. Such an Free Software Foundation doesn’t
> deserve our support. With this, the Free Software Foundation has not
> lost only who was its president, they have lost all the people who
> support Richard Stallman. If the Free Software Foundation says goodbye
> to its president in this way, we say goodbye to the Free Software
> Foundation. We will continue our work of promotion and diffusion of
> free software, but we’re not gonna do it under the acronym of who has
> looked the other way when this was happening to a person who has done
> so much for the cause as Richard Stallman.

Let me say following:

FSF and FSF.org websites are clearly apolitical, not political in
other issues but: "(1) that users should have control of their own
computing (for instance, through free software) and (2) supporting
basic human rights in computing. We don't require you as a contributor
to agree with these two points, but you do need to accept that our
decisions will be based on them." -- see:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html

Thus FSF supports free software and deserves support, not other way
around.

There are By-Laws of the FSF and President can resign. However, same
individual can have other positions, for example RMS cannot resign as
Founder as that is not possible.

I do not know really why he resigned, instead he only had to make few
policies, that FSF staff members shall not abuse FSF or FSF resources
or GNU projct for other politics but free software politics, and I do
not even know if they did anything of that kind, there is no evidence
to it.

The FSF was set there to follow RMS policies, funndamental principles
and to ensure for future the free software movement.

To decide if organization deserves support, one has to look into its
goals and purposes. For me FSF deserves support.

FSF shall remain apolitical and not promote and not let FSF and GNU
resources for promotion of feminism such as the statement by group of
people supporting feminism: Ludovic Courtès, Andy Wingo and others:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/
because they are abusing GNU platform for their political views.

We now think of the situation as being crazy, it is not, it is simple
situation where other political views were introduced into GNU
project, they have abused GNU project to push forward feminism views,
and now we got some troubles, and troubles are easily solvable.

Solution is to continue keeping GNU apolitical.

Those people who have signed the agreement ARE NOT free software
public speakers neither activists, they are only technical,
programmers who like their works and promote their works.

GNU, Guile, and all the software was funded by GNU, thus RMS's
creation, and FSF, and that is all fine.

Those people supporting feminism have introduced their one political
view into GNU project, they simply abused the powers given to them by
GNU project, so they used it to create a Thoughtpolice Squad[1] to
discover and punish Thoughtcrime[2] on GNU project, and they think
that GNU project shall be thought-policed for their feminism reasons.

Please review my facts on that, and do not become a consequence to few
people who wish others harm. FSF is good foundation and does nothing
against free sofware.

Those people are named, they are political, introducing their stance
into GNU project which is independent and apolitical.

Support the FSF and GNU.

Support apolitical GNU project.


Jean Louis

Footnotes:
[1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police

[2]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime