5 Months Later People Still Remove Their Names From the Slanderous Anti-RMS Petition, Managed by IBM Staff
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-08-28 08:18:00 UTC
- Modified: 2021-08-28 08:18:00 UTC
Microsoft-hosted (in proprietary software prison) and IBM-managed
Summary: It certainly feels like IBM is managing the purge of the Free software community (not just by proxy, e.g. OSI and GNOME Foundation) and people needed to ask IBM for 'permission' to be removed from a letter they had signed (with several days for approval to be given)
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