Hilariously janky. He can't watch something on zoom because of proprietary software. I can't watch Richard Stallman because the free software he is streaming with doesn't seem to work...
No, the Free Software Foundation has decided that the best person to be the public face of the movement, the best person to represent Free Software, is a walking media shitstorm known to creep on women and actively drive them away from participating with his behavior[0], who seems to spend an awful lot of words defending pedophiles on his blog, and who eats his toenails on camera.
That's who they think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement.
More relevant than ever. I doubt you can find someone with a better accuracy track record than RMS. Unfortunately, the mass public, even apparently the mass HN public, simply doesn’t care until it’s too late to matter. That isn’t due to a lack of “relevance”.
Yes they are; I think their mission is more important now than ever.
The same cannot be said for RMS however. His computing habits are so far detached from the reality of 99.9% of users that I feel he's become a caricature of himself, to say nothing of his problematic behavior that actively harms the image of the free software movement.
FSF needs to grow up and bring on a figurehead who's more broadly palatable.
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@ https://www.fsf.org/live
A player will be embedded in the page closer to the broadcast time.
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That's who they think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055792
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The same cannot be said for RMS however. His computing habits are so far detached from the reality of 99.9% of users that I feel he's become a caricature of himself, to say nothing of his problematic behavior that actively harms the image of the free software movement.
FSF needs to grow up and bring on a figurehead who's more broadly palatable.