Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

[James <purpleidea gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 15:24 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> So, this is a bit annoying already.
>
> <snip>
> >     > * Free software.  Many web sites require visitors to run nonfree
> >     > software to use some or even all of the functionality.  See
> >     > http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.  Does Bountysource
> >     > work without nonfree JS?  I don't know, but one can't presume that.
> >
> >     Their JS is opensource
> >
> > Whether a program is open source is not the pertinent question.
> > What matters is whether it is free software.
> <snip heard many times before tirade about Open Source vs. Free
> Software>
>
> The proletysing has to stop. He's a GNU orthodox thinking we're complete
> idiots of Roman GNUs.
>
> I've asked the mailing-list moderator to handle that already, but they
> won't lift a finger. Either he leaves, or I'm out of this mailing-list.

Speaking personally, I have a lot of respect for *your* work, but also
his. I'd rather neither of you leave, but I also don't see one of the
parties trying to get rid of the other.

Having read, and re-read the previous email that you replied to, I
thought it was very fair and reasonable, although some aspects of his
replies were expected (eg: the header, and his reply to the use of the
term "open source").

I'd personally recommend you avoid getting angry at your MUA, read
this (rudely titled, but well written) article:
https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html?nojs=1 and get back to
hacking :)

Cheers,
James



> Cheers