The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman

Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by zzzcpan on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:24PM (#20999669)

You are missing the point here. It was a targeted attack on Stallman through mass media, social media.

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by sp332 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:28PM (#20999717)

He's being "attacked" by FSF board members and employees, other free software foundations, and FLOSS advocates.

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by gruez on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:49PM (#20999917)

>He's being "attacked" by FSF board members and employees, other free software foundations, and FLOSS advocates.

Source on this? The only articles/blogs I've seen on this are from Vice, Selam G. (MIT alumni, unclear what her other affiliations are), and the Gnome foundation.

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by sp332 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:41PM (#21000374)

Former board member https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html & https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1172293871109320704

Founder of FSF's GPL Compliance Labs https://twitter.com/NovalisDMT/status/1172573166956437505

Former FSF staff https://twitter.com/georgialyle/status/1173788445732462593

FSF member since 2004 https://twitter.com/downey/status/1172328679889756162 Other members https://twitter.com/dustyweb/status/1173690170090168320 & https://twitter.com/j00bar/status/1172309099410669568

Free Software Conservancy https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-spea...

Senior staff technologist at EFF https://twitter.com/cooperq/status/1173789555993956352

Forbes writer and "FOSS advocate" https://twitter.com/killyourfm/status/1173014344973598722

Director of community for DIAL Community (part of the Open Source Center at the UN Foundation) https://twitter.com/cooperq/status/1173789555993956352

Tech author https://twitter.com/mwlauthor/status/1173690259277848576

[Not sure how to describe Sarah Jeong briefly] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/561785170538553344

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by gruez on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:57PM (#21000922)

thanks.

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by Drdrdrq on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:02PM (#21000051)

If he lost their support he should step down anyway.

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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman by YuriGrinshteyn on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:27PM (#20999702)

It was targeted at the man who did and said a lot of bad things...

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