IBM Handles More Removals of Signatures From Its Hate Letter Against Richard Stallman
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-06-20 02:09:24 UTC
- Modified: 2021-06-20 02:16:07 UTC
Summary: Less than a day ago IBM processed a request for removal (from its hate letter); as someone put it in a letter to us, also less than a day ago: "When all of this started in 2019, the Red Hat GNU developers showed off their colours. The best way to attack an organisation is from the inside. Using GNU developers was a dead giveaway. Google and Microsoft are very much on the team with IBM. I believe they've made headway into the Free/Libre software community and have persuaded senior Debianties to go along with them." That same message, from an anonymous GNU maintainer, said: "The strategy to target major distributions is clear and present danger. I'm not sure what arguments of persuasion are being used, but I'm pretty sure their main tool is currency. RMS needs a lot of strategic support from experts who will rally to the Free Software cause. He needs great lawyers, some corporate minds, and intelligence specialists." Sometimes it seems or feels like by simply buying Red Hat (the staff) IBM infiltrated the GNU Project and now it is vainly making claims like 'GNU is IBM' and thus IBM et al can command/tell the FSF who should run FSF, not only GNU. Such entryism isn't hard to see; "An open letter in support of Richard Matthew Stallman being reinstated by the Free Software Foundation" has meanwhile garnered 6,758 signatures. The opposite letter is only decreasing in support (signatures lost).
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