Sunday IT Wire counted up the number of signatories on two open letters, one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it. - The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers - The anti-Stallman letter had 2,812 individual signers (plus 48 companies and organizations). ...
  • BrownJenkin@lemmy.ml
    41·
    4 years ago

    Speak up publicly. Did you use your own real name in the support letter? You should.

      • BrownJenkin@lemmy.ml
        63·
        4 years ago

        Power in numbers. We can’t stay forever in the closet. Cancel barbarism is plain wrong.

      • Lilium@lemmy.ml
        13·
        4 years ago

        One can speak whatever the hell they want as long as it is not racist, xenophobic or provoking crime

        But misogyny is where you draw the line?

        • aab@lemmy.ml
          31·
          4 years ago

          Oh come on, nice work twisting the words in their mouth.

          Also I’m curious where Stallman has been openly misogynistic, as opposed to just socially clueless.

          • Lilium@lemmy.ml
            11·
            4 years ago

            Not twisting anything, just pointing out the hypocrisy in the quoted text.

            Also I’m at work, so I won’t dig in his past behavior on the internet for you now, but I am not the only one mentioning this stuff, which also had a part on RMS’s resign years ago, so there is little reason to still bring his misogyny into question today on 2021. Guy’s a boomer with some outdated boomer views, but being a boomer doesn’t excuse him for not updating his views.