Re:Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
by jameshart on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:20AM
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RMS will always be the founder of the FSF. Nobody can take that away from him. He should mint a commemorative NFT.
But that doesn’t entitle him to a seat on the board for all time regardless of how his presence there might affect how the FSF is perceived.
There’s no conflict there at all. That the FSF lacks the imagination to conceive of a way forward without RMS on the board definitely supports the OP argument that free software has a leadership development problem and lacks a vision of any path forward that will tangibly advance ‘freedom’ for software users.
But that doesn’t entitle him to a seat on the board for all time regardless of how his presence there might affect how the FSF is perceived.
There’s no conflict there at all. That the FSF lacks the imagination to conceive of a way forward without RMS on the board definitely supports the OP argument that free software has a leadership development problem and lacks a vision of any path forward that will tangibly advance ‘freedom’ for software users.