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Re: Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF
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John Darrington |
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Re: Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF |
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Sun, 1 Mar 2020 03:13:15 -0500 |
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On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 07:56:21PM -0500, aviva wrote:
>
> I wanted to voice my concern about the direction the the Free Software
> Foundation has recently taken.?? It seems that it has, with out warrant,
> moved past its initial mandate and adapting a more radicalized political
> stance that drives away large segments of the population from the
> mission of promoting Free Software.
I share your concern. Over the last few years many people have noticed
a shift towards extremist support of idealogy which is orthogonal to the
Free Software cause. And the board has not kept this in check.
> Recently, the FSF has announced having Shannon Dosemagen as a keynote
> speaker at libreplanet.?? Shannon is in no way a representative of the
> Free Software movement, and represents an organization, Publiclab,
I have never heard of this person nor the organisation so I have no comment
to make on the rest of your mail.
J'