Re: Call to stop contributing

[Niels Grewe]

Thank you for speaking up Johannes!

I wholeheartedly support your position and would encourage everybody to 
consider it carefully.
I am similarly appalled by the FSF's decision, which to me demonstrates 
that the FSF would rather foster a culture where abusive behaviours are 
tolerated and thus tacitly encouraged than one of true collaboration 
between equal individuals who value each other as such and take 
responsibility for their actions. This is not only antithetical to the 
collaborative ethos of the sociotechnical experiment called "free 
software", but also to my personal values.
For that reason, I have already informed the FSF (and Greg) yesterday 
that I will no longer assign copyright of any future contributions to 
the FSF until the core issue is resolved.

Best regards,

Niels


On 26.03.21 14:54, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> Dear GNUsteppers, Mr. Stallman,
>
> it is not as if I do like to write this mail, but I think I have to, 
> since you, Mr. Stallman, again took chair in the FSF board and posted 
> mails to this list suggesting development decisions.
>
> I’d like to clarify in advance that this statement does not contain any 
> personal objections and I highly value any contributions of past and 
> presence to a free and democratic digital world.
>
> But I think it is important for any project contributing to a free 
> world, that engagement for personal freedom can in no way tolerate or 
> even support (even by just being silent) any form of abusive behaviour 
> against children and women or any opinion that is tolerating or even 
> supporting such behaviour.
>
> So as lang as neither you, Mr. Stallman, nor the FSF board distance 
> oneself from such opinion or behaviour (f.e. be distancing to statements 
> declared in earlier times or by signing an appropriate code of conduct) 
> I’m going to stop contributing to any kind of GNU project and call all 
> developers to do the same.
>
> I suggest the GNUstep project to wait for such statements and in case 
> they don’t happen, to fork the project, remove the GNU acronym from its 
> name and to break up any connection with the FSF.
>
> For further information see https://rms-open-letter.github.io/
>
> Johannes