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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone


From: Caleb Herbert
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?
Date: 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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