Joint Statement on the GNU Project

Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by rowanG077 on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:53PM (#21184577)

Me writing off a bunch of people that are mostly unrelated to me and a group of people expel their leader are vastly different things. There is(should be) an inherit trust from the leader to the group and the group to the leader. It's fine for the group to expel. What is not fine in my opinion is for the group to do this under external pressure.

This clearly show the group has no allegiance to the group itself. Only to winds of external pressures. It basically proved GNU is not really serious group. Just window dressing.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by kennywinker on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:10PM (#21184758)

Apparently some other non serious groups include: governments, most major corporations.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by rowanG077 on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:28PM (#21184971)

That's exactly right. Governments enforce their power through force and major corporations through money. Not groups that deserve any respect or their stance be taking seriously.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by kennywinker on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:49PM (#21185198)

This is a huge aside, but the most disturbing part of your response is the bit about governments. Governments are _supposed_ to be responsible to the people. Responding to external pressure is literally their job. They should be respected when they are responsive to the people. They only need to "enforce their power through force" when they are not responsive to the people.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by rowanG077 on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:17PM (#21185492)

Yes governments job is to respond to the people. I'm not sure what your point is. That inherently makes the government a group that can't be trusted. It's too fickle to be trusted.

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