• moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    the report was an attack on the FSF and the free software

    Stallman is not the FSF. The FSF is not the free software community. The free software community is not free software.

    I’m so tired to people presenting these things as if they are equivalent.

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      7 days ago

      Stallman is not the FSF.

      FYI, DeVault’s Stallman Report explicitly attacks the FSF as well as Stallman.

      The FSF is not the free software community

      OP said that the report was “an attack on the FSF and the free software community in general” which doesn’t imply that the FSF is the free software community and in fact is explicitly distinguishing the two. I took it mean that the report was such a deceitful and irrational work, presented in such a duplicitous manner as to constitute an attack on the senses of the community.

      Edit: in fact, the report does attack the community, even if justification for the attack is invalid:

      “The case against Stallman is clear, and yet the free software community has failed to act …” – https://stallman-report.org/#why-publish-this-report