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With Byfield at the Wheel FOSSForce is a Force Against Richard Stallman (and What GNU Stands for)

A site of butterflies doesn't need worms which will never mature and develop into butterflies

FOSSForce butterflies
B.B. will never become a butterfly because he spent a decade and a half attacking pro-FOSS people



Summary: It's a bit perplexing; FOSSForce spent a number of years passionately combating for FOSS, but nowadays it's mostly run by a person with anti-FOSS history

THE site FOSSForce has historically been a very good one. I get along rather well with its founder, I did an interview there (with the former editor of Linux.com, who unfortunately died about a year later). The site's tone changed less than a year ago after a long period of complete silence. In 2019 it became active again. No articles at all in 2018 and 23 articles this year, about 19 of them composed by the same person, the Stallman-bashing Bruce Byfield, who in yesterday's article wrote about Stallman that he "has had an injured tendon in his leg since 1998."



What does that have to do with verbal and intellectual advocacy of GNU? He's not an athlete.

"I will fondly remember the FOSSForce of Christine, Phil, Robin and Ken."We've repeatedly seen many condemnations (e.g. in social control media) of his articles about Stallman, at times name-calling in response to apparent mischaracterisations. Over a decade ago Byfield misattributed rude quotes to me (making me look bad based on things I never even said!) and often sparred with us, defending Mono, Microsoft, Novell, OOXML and so on (overlapping the Jono Bacon modus operandi). He also sparred with Groklaw. For a while he wrote "GNU/Linux", but he no longer does. Byfield nowadays writes many "hit pieces" on Stallman and he did at least one on us (for Linux.com a very long time ago).

I will fondly remember the FOSSForce of Christine, Phil, Robin and Ken. But Bruce? No thanks.

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