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2021 Deja Vu: The 'Counter-Petition' Defending Richard Stallman (RMS) Gets a Lot More Support Than the Hateful Screed

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 19, 2024

Text Of Word Hate In Calligraphy

Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). If you start with a very garbage argument, it'll end badly for sure.

3.5 years ago we wrote many articles and made numerous videos about the anti-RMS mob that had amassed some signatures in Microsoft's proprietary GitHub, managed by an IBM/Microsoft Azure lackey that seemingly supports Hamas. As a response to those signatures someone created a counter-petition (or letter) that got almost twice as many signatures. Over the coming weeks/months or over time the original attack only lost signatures (people asked for their names to be revoked/removed from it), not gained any, until it was locked and they would no longer allow people to revoke their names. Nice, eh? What lovely, caring, inclusive people... trick people into signing an array of lies, then tell them to piss off (if they regret being tricked and try to correct that, undoing what they had done because of Social Control Media disinformation campaigns).

To prevent the "blood libels" resurfacing someone created a site, stallmansupport.org. The other day the site was very slow. DDoS? Just high demand? Coincidence? Sometimes requests sent to the site timed out altogether. At a very critical time. We documented this with evidence in IRC.

History seems to be repeating itself.

DistroTube

Well, as shown above, videos in support of RMS - videos from this past week (there are more) - are going kind of "viral". In the case of DistroTube or Derek Taylor (DT), it's clearly a lot more popular than his other videos.

"The commentary and posts against the proprietarization of FOSS using the guise of 'ethical source' could use more redundancy," one reader told us, "specifically reiteration of the reasons why 'ethical source' is basically proprietary."

It's hardly surprising that the attack on RMS focused only on "sex" or "sexual" something. The person behind this attack has a long history of doing just that. He did that last November and we wrote a rebuttal in "When the So-called 'Cancel Culture' Sees Everything in Free Software Through the Scopes of 'Sex' (Because It Cannot Argue on Technical or Legal Grounds)".

This is his vision of freedom; "I don't like you, so I ban you!"

Perhaps the real problem is himself, but he just cannot get himself to acknowledge it because that's a lot more challenging than taking out his frustration on some old man with cancer.

Someone wants his Gewalt.

"DT's recent video [over 31k YouTube views; more in Odysee] on that was one of his best IMO," the reader told us (other readers told us about that same video; that's why it keeps spreading... people like it).

"The bottom line is that, like usual, it is about control. Specifically "ethical source" is about taking control away."

Don't listen to the RMS haters. Many of them have personal issue and they hope to somehow dethrone those who did better in their life, career, coding, recognition etc.

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