McGovern: Handing over [LWN.net]

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 15, 2022 18:21 UTC (Tue) by lfam (subscriber, #127309)
In reply to: McGovern: Handing over by Shiba
Parent article: McGovern: Handing over

Wow. Have you ever gotten the advice, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?"

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 15, 2022 23:52 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (2 responses)

When that sentence contains the word "nice", it is only fitting advice for small children living fortunate lives.

The version for everyone else needs "constructive" in its place.

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 17, 2022 8:26 UTC (Thu) by Shiba (guest, #151620) [Link] (1 responses)

This sounds more right and I can give you "constructive": I hope his successor will be someone who won't use the Foundation to contribute spreading misleading headlines to attack members of our community and also won't be among the the promoters of any targeted slanderous hate campaign.

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 20, 2022 2:56 UTC (Sun) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]

Hear, hear! That's probably the most significant comment in this thread. I recall also the coordinated campaign now over a decade in the past to keep Stallman off the GNOME board. And let's not forget GNOME founder Icaza jumping ship to Microsoft to become a paid tool promoting OOXML, earning the moniker "traitor to the Free Software Community" -- quite rightly in my book -- from Stallman.

We should be quite clear about the history of these organizations and what they really have represented historically. GNOME and its push for Flatpak in particular is promoting tooling historically associated with proprietary software, including providing non-free software on Flathub.

Thus my objection to the present GNOME on multiple areas of disagreement.