(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21522265)
A group of people including Drew DeVault are trying to cancel RMS again, basing their claims on ancient misinterpreted quotes. Stallman may be controversial, but these activists are just acid for the entire Free Software movement.
I won’t even bother to see/hear what this guys is babbling, because I never understood how people can watch a guy like this. DT has never shown anything new, innovative or even knew how to say sorry when he made mistakes, so it’s another shitfluencer of our era.
And supporting RMS makes him more shit than he ever was.
Just an advice for you, OP: Lemmy hates DT and RMS quite a lot. Post about it somewhere else if you don’t want active hate coming to your side.
This banning culture of hate is ridiculous, you can disagree with someone, or even just ideas, but procuring “canceling” and “banning” to everything we don’t agree is crazy. This mono culture of hate really saddens me. But perhaps you’re right on your appreciation.
Some of these periodical rebirths of the debate about RMS, what are really looking for is discredit on the Free software, which is not the same as open source software. Drew is one of those, if I’m not mistaken because his blog is prolific, who believe free software has no hope, and the total triumph of open source, which in practice is correct, but ethically I’m not so sure. We should be aware of what’s behind all these attacks, and I believe it’s naive to think these attacks are just about RMS. Free software is ethical in the sense of the freedoms it seeks for the users, but that has no place on enterprises and corporations, open source has enjoyed a different fate because it’s not as strict on respecting those freedoms, which under enterprises and corporations are believed to be too restrictive and against their interests. And here we are over and over attacking the organizations (yes, the FSF is attacked not only because RMS is part of it, it was founded by him as well) and people defending those principles, because in the end our minds tend to disqualify everything way too easily, made easy with this banning culture of hate. I’ve read about how useless it is the FSF, and also about how useless it is the copyleft, and these recurrent intend to discredit the one who started all that of course discredits what came from him, one way or another. I wish I’m wrong on this, and that there was no pun intended towards free software…
The original post was most probably included into the wrong community for sure BTW, this is an open source community, so looking to empathize about free software stuff in here is not going to happen, even less for RMS.
It’s a guy babbling about an anonymous website with the same-old stuff against Stallman, and how that is part of a conspiracy to harm free software.
I watched it (most of it) despite having formed my opinion on the quality of that DistroTube channel a while ago… you might want to be wiser than me and do something else with your time.
PS:
Before you put me in the pro-Stallman faction, let me clarify that I think the FSE (non the FSFe - BTW you should change your name guys) is largely irrelevant and so I’ve never investigated the allegations to Stallman enough to take a stance pro or against: I do not care.
What’s interesting is that the people that are yapping about no second chance for sexual assaulters are either assaulters themselves or use a different politics for their crimes (sexual or not). They’re just selfish people with extremely high self-esteem that don’t want to listen to others and prefer either ruining their lives (destroying the competition) or sticking to their unhealthy esteem knowing that the majority will believe them because they’re great manipulators. All of this is being confirmed in the document, as well as my personal experience and encounters (and for those who want to accuse me, no, I have never committed a sexual crime myself).
EDIT: for personal medical safety reasons all replies to this comment will be downvoted and left without a reply by me. If this goes against the rules of Lemmy, I am sorry.
