Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 12, 2019 7:09 UTC (Sat) by CycoJ (guest, #70454)
In reply to: Richard Stallman and the GNU project by cert_meter
Parent article: Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Ah the irony, a bunch of anonymous posters calling people who put their name under a petition "a lynchmob" and accuse victims who don't want to speak out publicly abuse "snowflakes".
When asked about putting your name under your views you respond by saying you fear repercussions (the big bad world). I wonder who is the lynch mob and who are the snowflakes.

Let's stop this here.

Posted Oct 12, 2019 13:41 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Regardless of who it is, can we please see an end to the name-calling now? This isn't doing anybody any good, to say the least.

Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 13, 2019 13:10 UTC (Sun) by cert_meter (guest, #127372) [Link]

> Ah the irony, a bunch of anonymous posters calling people who put their name under a petition "a lynchmob" and accuse victims who don't want to speak out publicly abuse "snowflakes".

Please stop misrepresenting what people say. I don't think anybody here considers that joint statement to be part of a lynchmob, and if someone does, then that is not my position anyway. The GNU project is free to seek new leadership if it feels the current one is inadequate and at least those maintainers uncomfortable with Stallman did speak out without distorting the facts or calling him names. Which is not what happened on other less civilized parts of the internet.

> When asked about putting your name under your views you respond by saying you fear repercussions (the big bad world). I wonder who is the lynch mob and who are the snowflakes.

Since you're wondering, let me help you: the lynch mob are the ones who are lynching, and the ones hiding are those being lynched.

And Stallman, with all his flaws, is still the victim of an injustice.