For whatever it's worth, I did not support the decision to reinstate RMS. I made my arguments and placed my opposing vote; while I was glad I was able to do that I regret not being able to turn the decision the other way.
(The announcement was unplanned and I expected to have more time for things I wanted to say and do first, but no, I don't think it was the right decision by the FSF, whose mission is needed but which keeps falling short of fulfilling it.)
given that it was a vote, and assuming the board are rational thoughtful people, I wonder what the board members who voted in favour know that most people (many with strong opinions online) don't...
If the FSF board wasn't a top secret org, I bet money you'd see meeting minutes calling for Stallman's reinstatement all the way back in 2019 as soon as he "resigned". Probably the same hour.
I think we should ask them to explain their reasoning. It seems a reasonable request. To be fair, I can think of compelling (and just & ethical) reasons for them to do so.
It does seem reasonable. But given that there is a secret board ("voting members") and there has never been transparency into either board in decades, I am not holding my breath.
I'd love if Richard Stallman worked to make amends. But he has consistently done the exact opposite. The FSF Board of Directors KNEW this would be an explosive disaster so they kept it secret until the end of LibrePlanet.
Even better it would be to have a group of people that can bring back the FSF as a leading force of the Free Software community, without a single leader nor cult of personality.
Keith Packard pointed out in FLOSS Weekly that many projects and folks can't just abandon the FSF. Because of the software that they develop on and love, the copyright is assigned to the FSF.
@Michael Downey πΊπ³ @Dave Lane @Kat @Esther Payne I don't feel like anybody answered the question. I think the community decided around the time of Project Harmony that copyright aggregation is less useful than the FSF originally assumed, and the Busybox case and others have demonstrated it in court.
It's maintained in certain GNU projects as an archaic quirk, but if the authors stopped assigning copyright and individually held their rights, it seems to me that wouldn't affect the future of those projects in any way.
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