what really gets me about rms defenders is that a good quarter of the stuff in the Stallman report is stuff that he has written himself, half of it published on his own website, the other half on public mailing lists
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what really gets me about rms defenders is that a good quarter of the stuff in the Stallman report is stuff that he has written himself, half of it published on his own website, the other half on public mailing lists
i have, fortunately, never interacted with him in person, but I have worked with/in FLOSS since I started interacting with computers in 2001. and as soon as i was able to critically read, I was of the same the humble opinion as every other woman*× in FLOSS: that rms can absolutely fuck off.
*all 2-3% of us
×even tho i wasn't a woman myself… back then -
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Mina last edited by [email protected]
@meena yeah like in Scots we have an expression " telt on <someone>.
Although telling in you is a British expression as well
Stallman "telt" on himself.
No one in their need to defend Stallman is confronting the innate intersectional issues in the industry. It's not safe for those who are not benefitting from the status quo .
In that way, the defenders of RMS are telling on themselves as well.
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Minareplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict so what Pamela said: https://bsd.network/@pamela/113330382944476146
over and over again, "our" "community" kept sticking to these abusive figure heads for some nebulous benefit of the community or the movement — which never manifested, and instead slowly degraded it
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@meena @onepict Sometimes a person can be that bad for that long by giving the impression that they are open to change (primarily to the people who want to see that change, of course.)
In this case, it amounted to a delaying tactic and/or a bizarre effort to somehow accommodate those that know that women should be treated like people AND those who don't believe that women are people.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to baconandcoconut last edited by [email protected]
@baconandcoconut @meena It's that idea that if we don't work with people who think differently from us, we won't get anything done.
Like how the folks at Nostr keep reintroducing Alex Gleason into AP spaces because his technical work is great. Despite the fact he's a TERF and deliberately writes and publishes code to evade Auth fetch.
That attitude is wrong. You don't work with people who abuse others boundaries. They mean harm.
