(ℹ) Join us now at the IRC channel | ䷉ Find the plain text version at this address.
schestowitz__ | " | May 07 00:58 |
---|---|---|
schestowitz__ | From: Thomas Lord | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Subject: Re: Support RMS | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:23:10 -0700 | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | The raising of voices in conversation does not have a context independent or culturally universal emotional valence. For some it is normal and expected. For some it borders on a taboo. | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Taking the complaint about RMS raising his voice at face value: it borders on antisemitism. I don't mean that every Jew communicates in the style of RMS (of course). Perhaps we can step back and think about this complaint in that context. | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Here is a story that might help: Long ago, in the very early days of the FSF, I was an employee and there was more or less one person handling most of the operational day to day corporate business. One day, I had done something that (understandably) pissed RMS off. You see: after a brief chat with a board member other than RMS, I unilaterally decided to work remotely. I packed up and moved several states away, almost overnight, to | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | be near my sweetheart (who is now my wife - it's a very romantic story, in retrospect). I did not notify RMS I was doing this. It upset him. He called and yelled. I was very distressed by this - I didn't expect it at all. I sought and received consel—very good consel—from that woman who was running the day to day business. “Just hang up on him if he gets like that,” she advised. Later I understood this could be generalized | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | walk away, if need be. One can also really productively engage, sometimes, also, just by yelling back if you have something relevant and coherent to say. As an older person now, I realize that part of RMS' reputation comes from him being actually a better and more dynamic conversationalist than most people have ever met— and yes, that can be hard to come to grip with at first. | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | This doesn't mean that RMS or anyone has free reign to be a constant holy terror, always screaming and yelling, but that is not what I ever saw RMS do and is not what any of the complainers have said he does. Raised voices among friends and allies typify some cultural backgrounds—including mine, ironically enough. It can, when in those cultural contexts, a bit creepy if someone does not communicate this way. One asks: what is | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | that quiet person hiding from us? | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Interruption is a similarly culturally variable communication style. In some cultures I mix in, it is expected and is often a sign of engagement with what one is saying - silence comes off as rude / checked out. In other cultures, the opposite—interruption—is not allowed. In a multi-cultural world, we should all be tolerant and flexible in our communication styles. (RMS, meanwhile, is being made to do the limbo by people who | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | think they get to define the One True Civil Converstation Style. Flexibility in style is a two-way street, chums.) | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | None of this means that people making complaints have invalid feelings that should be ignored. Of course not. But it does mean that the particular demands against RMS, and the relentless character assassination, need to stop. | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | Lastly, neither Deb nor any of us is qualified to assess whether or not a single person, RMS in this case, “drives people away from the movement” on balance. That's an incredibly arrogant assertion that centers one own cultural expectations and projects them onto an entire planet of people. Can we end the pointless debate of such assertions once and for all? | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | -t | May 07 00:58 |
schestowitz__ | " | May 07 00:58 |
Techrights-sec | https://pclosmag.com/html/enter.html | May 07 01:06 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pclosmag.com | PCLinuxOS Magazine 2021 Index | May 07 01:06 | |
schestowitz__ | <li> | May 07 04:31 |
schestowitz__ | <h5><a href="https://hothardware.com/news/linux-kernel-developer-umn-invesigation">Linux Technical Advisory Board Issues Findings On UMN's Shady Kernel Conundrum</a></h5> | May 07 04:31 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 400 @ https://hothardware.com/news/linux-kernel-developer-umn-invesigation">Linux ) | May 07 04:31 | |
schestowitz__ | <blockquote> | May 07 04:31 |
schestowitz__ | <p> To move forward from both this and the other issues that cropped up recently, the TAB has two specific recommendations for UMN so they can “continue to work together successfully in the future.” These recommendations include improving “the quality of the changes that are proposed for inclusion into the kernel,” as well as having the TAB work with researchers to create a document “explaining best | May 07 04:31 |
schestowitz__ | practices for all research groups to follow when working with the kernel (and open-source projects in general).” </p> | May 07 04:31 |
schestowitz__ | <p> The TAB hopes that this will be enough to bring the kernel and research communities together once again as well as prevent future incidents like this. However, the TAB also believes that UMN should bring in a review process for development as it would otherwise be “difficult to re-establish the trust between UMN and the kernel community.” </p></blockquote></li> | May 07 04:31 |
schestowitz__ | ytalk got jammed for a very long time, I had to restart the session | May 07 09:55 |
Techrights-sec | ok | May 07 10:43 |
Techrights-sec | there were some network problems here but only (I thought) on the other LAN | May 07 10:43 |
Techrights-sec | it should not have affected ytalk | May 07 10:43 |
Techrights-sec | since that is on a different LAN | May 07 10:43 |
schestowitz__ | x https://www.databreaches.net/ryuk-ransomware-finds-foothold-in-bio-research-institute-through-student-who-wouldnt-pay-for-software/ | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | = | May 07 13:15 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.databreaches.net | Ryuk ransomware finds foothold in bio research institute through student who wouldn’t pay for software | May 07 13:15 | |
schestowitz__ | x https://www.databreaches.net/fr-ransomware-attack-on-environmental-center-resulted-in-data-loss/ | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | # windows tco; not using windows at all would have prevented that; | May 07 13:15 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.databreaches.net | Fr: Ransomware attack on environmental center resulted in data loss | May 07 13:15 | |
schestowitz__ | # using ZFS with snapshots on the server-side could have mitigated the damage; | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | = | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | x https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/microsoft-to-allow-eu-customers-to-process-store-data-in-the-region/82429535 | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | = | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | x https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/big-data/75-of-data-to-be-processed-at-the-edge-by-2025-michael-dell/82427347 | May 07 13:15 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Microsoft to allow EU customers to process, store data in the region, IT News, ET CIO | May 07 13:15 | |
schestowitz__ | # buzzword salad | May 07 13:15 |
schestowitz__ | = | May 07 13:15 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com; Unknown error ( status 0 @ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/big-data/75-of-data-to-be-processed-at-the-edge-by-2025-michael-dell/82427347 ) | May 07 13:15 | |
schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/bap47/status/1390669578326482951 | May 07 17:03 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@bap47: To which discussions, the U.K. in its #Brexit wisdom, is presumably no longer privy. https://t.co/zqdSes5t8U | May 07 17:03 | |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Unexpected response | May 07 17:03 | |
schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/TrishaR40915881/status/1390656012856610816 | May 07 17:03 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Unexpected response | May 07 17:03 | |
schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1390560259274678273 | May 07 17:04 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Unexpected response | May 07 17:04 | |
schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/Mikael_Arling/status/1390378298618830848 | May 07 17:05 |
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Mikael_Arling: @schestowitz 😃👍 | May 07 17:05 | |
*liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) | May 07 17:52 | |
*rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) | May 07 17:52 | |
*rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 17:54 | |
*liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 17:55 | |
*rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) | May 07 19:13 | |
*liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) | May 07 19:14 | |
*rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 19:18 | |
*liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 19:28 | |
*liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) | May 07 20:59 | |
*rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) | May 07 20:59 | |
*liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 21:26 | |
*rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell | May 07 21:26 |
Generated by irclog2html.py
2.6 | ䷉ find the plain text version at this address.