I have done my best to stay informed about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE. I read what I can about it, and hope I'm informed enough that my opinions about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE are similarly informed. I've got good friends on both sides of $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE who are -- for very good reasons! -- not objective about it. I don't think you need to be objective to have a valid opinion, either. But, if I am not talking about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE very much... that's possibly part of why.

Christ, what a mess the Free Software community (and the #FSF) is.

The Stallman report

The Stallman report

October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Fre...

is exhaustive and damning and while I knew nearly all of it already, to see it in one coherent whole with citations and supporting evidence is amazing work. Much respect also to the people who fought to mitigate his damage. Stallman needs to have gone, to go, and to be gone from this community. (careful, too; the same URL but with .com appended is being used to link to a manifesto supporting #RMS)