@drewdevault while it doesn't excuse behaviour, I think it does grant people a do-over if they fuck up and apologise. Stallman apologised and admitted he was wrong, so for me that's enough.
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My personal problem with a lot of decentralised tech out there (meshtastic, p2p solutions): many communities are full of peppers, anti-government, far-right people.@jwildeboer I think the difference should be viewed as less about political affiliations, but more in terms of individualism and collectivism (obviously, I know). Is a technology designed to foster community, or tiny individual atoms? It's one of the reasons I see revolutionary potential in free software, not necessarily directly. How often have we seen fringe far right contributors give to the greater good in spite of those contributions being contradictory to their overall world view?