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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone
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Caleb Herbert |
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen? |
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Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:26:55 -0500 |
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I am not yet a member.
On 09/21/2019 09:32 AM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Caleb Herbert <csh@bluehome.net> wrote:
>> On 09/20/2019 08:21 AM, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote:
>>> No Leah, the way to go would have been to withdraw your membership - not
>>> renew it!
>>
>> We should become or remain members, so we have a voice.
>
> A voice? You were an associate member when the mobbing had been on peak,
> weren’t you? Did FSF send you an email asking for your opinion? Or did, at
> least, inform you about a decision, while it still was preliminary?
>
> Yes, indeed, FSF, unlike some other foundations [1], makes efforts to gain
> independence from transnational corporations by funding itself not from their
> ‘patronage’ but from dues and donations from thousands of individual
> supporters.
>
> But to whose voice did they lend an ear when they had to make a vital
> decision: was it its grass root members’ voice?
>
> [1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
>
>
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- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2019/09/20
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] well motherfucking done internet. I'm not proud of you at all, Adrienne G. Thompson, 2019/09/20
- [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2019/09/21
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Miles Fidelman, 2019/09/21
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Adrienne G. Thompson, 2019/09/22
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Adrienne G. Thompson, 2019/09/22
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Leah Rowe, 2019/09/21
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?,
Caleb Herbert <=
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Adrienne G. Thompson, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Leah Rowe, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Leah Rowe, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Deb Nicholson, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Leah Rowe, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Deb Nicholson, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Caleb Herbert, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Aaron Wolf, 2019/09/23
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?, Leah Rowe, 2019/09/23