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| DATE | 2020-02-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Richard Stallman should be reinstated to
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On 2/16/20 11:40 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
>> Nobody but Stallman can do what he does, as a spokeman, and strategic
>> planner to protect end users from the abuses of non-free software.
>
> If that's true then everything RMS headed up is in deep trouble. At some
> point everyone needs to be replaced if only because nobody lives
> forever.
https://archive.org/details/Network1976
Go to the hour and 1 minuter mark and start watching.
> I don't agree with the above quoted claim.
That is sad, because it means you are completely confused and refused
read what I sent, or to learn from history.
> I think it's
> possible to find whom we need
There is ZERO chance, and especaiily from this group of greedy, power
grabbbing meglomantiacs who think that because they can hack a few lines
of code that they have the mustard to fly into Turkey, a real police
state, and call out the government for impeding political freedom and
calling for adoption of the Four Freedoms of Free Software as the means
to guarantee that political freedom.
You have no better chance to represent GNU and the GNU political mission
than you could have written the Declaration of Independence, or
constructed the US Constition, or even battled for the GPL3. You are a
buch of lazy hackers who never once would come out from behind your
keyboards to prclaim and fight for the polical freedoms that the Four
Freedoms guarantee.
Oh yes, you will mindlessly babble for days on the exquisit beauty of
Guile, and the spend hours explining the fine details of a stack, and a
test suite, and how beautiful your fonts are... but you will never spend
years of you life, battling every day, to assure that a safe digital
platform exists for future generations to read.
You could never be trusted to fight DRM and to pitch to congress, and
indiustry, and Linus Tovalds that software as a service is a dead end to
political freedom. You squable over the degree that an OS is
implemented, and you fail to realize, that the technology just doesn't
matter. The technology is just a by product of the Four Freedom, and
peices can come and go, today and tomorrow, and it will mean nothing.
The only political device that truly matters is the GPL, and its
adoption, and it's broad adoption, and the implimentation of the the
Four Freedoms. Everything else is of secondary import. None of you
have the power to shape future minds, and to remind future generations
that there only protection is adoption of the Four Freedoms and to sell
your Freedom for a discount at Amazon is a march to your enslavement.
You can all be dismissed tomorrow and it would be a temporary setback at
best. It would entrench that the priorities of GNU is not its
volunteers and maintainers, but the public at large,
When the time comes for RMS to step down, WOW is all of us. Who can
step into those shoes? Aaron Swartz is dead. Edward Snowden is in
hiding in Russia and tied down with his own agenda. Who among you will
step up and into the light?
None of you hackers with visions of granduer. You guys are useless,
accept as political pawns for RMS and GNU. None of you have the
emotional make up and political talent to step up like William the
Silent and lead a nation to freedom. There are no Moses amoung you.
You are all just a bunch of wannabees.
Positive trends in history are always shaped by the actions and words of
a select brave few. It is never positively transformed by the mob, and
that is what this is. It is a mob and a lynching dresses up with
formalities and decorated with falsehoods.
> to keep the free software social movement
> going and I think it's important that more people speak publicly about
> software freedom as a value unto itself.
>
Nothing GNU does prevents that. By all means, get out from behind your
desk and do it now,
> I won't post to your other mailing list to which I was apparently
> subscribed without asking, and I cannot unsubscribe (the links in the
> email were unreachable). I shouldn't have to unsubscribe as I shouldn't
> have been subscribed in that manner in the first place.
I will not be censored... On this issue, the gloves are off and I am
done being nice about that. And BTW - you are likely not on the hangout
mailing list.
Ruben
--
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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