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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by canarypilot on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:26PM (#21184950)
Do you object to “moving” or “forward”? If the former, I disagree; I see new battlegrounds emerging for free software and the developers and users of free software. Many of these new battlegrounds are commercial as we voluntarily hand over our data to opaque computing platforms, some are societal as we redefine how we expect work to be done, and who we expect to do it.

If the latter, it doesn’t hurt my argument for you to pretend I never used the word forward at all, and I’m very happy for you to do so. Our common ground here is that things feel as though they are changing.

Many great leaders are as much a product of their time and circumstances as they are a reflection of their innate talents. Whether you see the world progressing or regressing you might still agree that Stallman is not necessarily effective in the current climate.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by ibeckermayer on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:45AM (#21189770)
> Do you object to “moving” or “forward”?

Forward.

> Whether you see the world progressing or regressing you might still agree that Stallman is not necessarily effective in the current climate.

This is an amoral (and depraved) approach to this topic. The issue of what constitutes an healthy culture takes precedence over whether an individual is "effective" in that culture. There are many ways to recognize this fact, the simplest being to recognize that humanity's most horrific monsters (Hitler, Stalin, Mao) were highly "effective" leaders in their respective monstrous cultures.

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