The Number of Signatures in the Anti-FSF Petition is Decreasing, Not Increasing
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-04-19 07:52:40 UTC
- Modified: 2021-04-19 08:45:42 UTC
When a letter or a petition is based on lies...
Summary: A reader has notified Techrights that belatedly, perhaps where people's job is at risk (we've heard of stories and situations wherein the employer's view and a worker's view diverge), the GNOME Foundation/OSI did in fact remove some people from the hate letter they had set up for their monopolistic sponsors. We do, however, still see some names in there of people who asked to be removed, so it must be a very selective process. They don't want to lose face, so they must have made it very difficult to revoke one's name. Exceptional circumstances? We have checked to confirm, based on the available archives, and indeed that number decreased since 10 days ago, whereas 6,415 people have thus far signed the support letter (it's still growing), so we've just re-plotted the chart.
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