RMS and open letter

[Uli Klinkhammer]

Hey Carl,

I am relatively new to the KDE community and to the Free Software Movement.

So I really dont understand in detail what you are talking about.

If you are talking about this:

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

.. I just can say, that we should have a closer look at Richards philosophy.

At first place: I am NOT a friend of child pornography.

But if some person, who is already able to make its own decisions (I
think this starts at the age of 13 or 14) comes to the conclusion to "do
this or to do that" (that could be drug taking at the same time as
having sex or any other thing), this in my eyes is totally natural and
normal.

I for myself started to have sex at the age of 13, started to drive my
own car at 14 and I started smoking hash at the age of 15.

Our old-fashioned societies are full of rules, created by those "ruling
aristocrats". They want shift us, to adapt us and to rule us.

I think the Open Software movement is precisely acting against those.

So, should we have a second look of what Richard Stallman was saying?

In this world, in this nature, everything is relative. And so every
relationship, whatever it is, should be judged just by the persons who
are involved in this relationship, and not by people outside.

So EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DECIDE HIMSELF, OF WHAT HE WANTS OR NOT.

I think this is the real policy of the free software movement.

greets,

Uli

KDE supporting member


On 23/03/2021 20:49, Carl Schwan wrote:
> Hello all,
> like you probably heard already RMS was reinstatement to the
> Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation. RMS has
> always been a negative force to the Free Software movement due
> to his toxic behavior. There is an open letter asking for his
> and the current board FSF resignation available at
> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/.
>
> It was already signed by many other Free Software contributors
> from many organizations (GNOME, OSI, Apache, ...) and it would be
> a good idea for some us to sign it too.
>
> This can be done by either sending a email digitalautonomy at riseup.net
> or by submitting a pull request at https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/pulls.
>
> Regards,
> Carl Schwan
> https://carlschwan.eu
>
>