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[04:01] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 23 [06:09] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [06:09] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [06:10] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [06:12] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 23 [08:55] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [08:55] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [08:57] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [08:59] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 23 [11:27] schestowitz https://twitter.com/theaspect/status/1374118336582258688 ● Mar 23 [17:22] schestowitz >> Some other sites have made copies by now (It's FOSS, LWN links to an [17:22] schestowitz >> audio), so by the time the official video is out not many people will [17:22] schestowitz >> turn to it. [17:22] schestowitz > Oh, my, the FSF is screwing this up so badly :-( [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz >> My wife watches the RMS talk; my post about this got nearly 100,000 [17:22] schestowitz >> viewers (highest since I reported in Red Hat layoffs last summer). [17:22] schestowitz > Wow, that's great. [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz > I wonder if you got a sense of the kind of responses this news is [17:22] schestowitz > bringing about. [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz > My own observations are that the outbursts in LibrePlanet IRC channels [17:22] schestowitz > was unanimously favorable (lots of cheering and clapping and YAY!, I was [17:22] schestowitz > so moved that I even failed to express it myself :-) [17:22] schestowitz > [17:22] schestowitz > As expected, corporate media didn't have good words to share about it. [17:22] schestowitz > Broader community reactions seem to be mixed, also as expected, but I'm [17:22] schestowitz > surprised and happy to see strong responses and bs-calling in the [17:22] schestowitz > relitigation of the nonsense raised against Richard. [17:22] schestowitz From what I have seen, there are 2 types of people in the anti-RMS camp: [17:22] schestowitz 1. workers of proprietary software #monopolies [17:22] schestowitz 2. people misled by the group (1) [17:22] schestowitz We know who owns the big media, which compels (2) to act based on misunderstandings. [17:22] schestowitz I am trying to shift the discussion beyond all that... [17:22] schestowitz Let this become "old news" ASAP*. [17:22] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2021/03/23/10-reasons-or-ways-to-support-fsf/ [17:22] schestowitz ____ [17:22] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | High-Priority Proposals for the FSF in 2021 | Techrights [17:22] schestowitz *It's not even news anyway [17:27] Techrights-sec Yes, TR support of software freedom and the fight against software patents [17:27] Techrights-sec is essential. ● Mar 23 [18:40] schestowitz https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/fifteen-year-old-linux-vulnerability-allows-local-privilege-escalation-information-leak-and-denial-of-service/ [18:40] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cpomagazine.com | Fifteen-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability Allows Local Privilege Escalation, Information Leak, and Denial of Service - CPO Magazine ● Mar 23 [19:18] schestowitz [18:58] by the way, i intend to sign the open letter calling for the FSF board to resign. i have to go with my heart on this one. [19:18] schestowitz [19:18] that's ok [19:18] schestowitz [19:18] up to you ● Mar 23 [22:59] schestowitz [19:19] i just thought you should be aware. i'm still committed to the mission of software freedom, but i want to protect some of the people who signed that letter who i mentored by lending them my own privilege [22:59] schestowitz [22:58] that's OK, we will never agree 100% of the time (that's fine!) ● Mar 23 [23:07] schestowitz https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1374422385420464130 [23:07] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@zoobab: If FSF should do something, is to create a broad alliance against software patents in the US, via a "bipartisan" Ti https://t.co/zd0I2VOWK2 [23:07] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@zoobab: If FSF should do something, is to create a broad alliance against software patents in the US, via a "bipartisan" Ti https://t.co/zd0I2VOWK2 [23:07] schestowitz "If FSF should do something, is to create a broad alliance against software patents in the US, via a "bipartisan" Tillis&Coons. One of the reason why FFII was created was because we could not trust other organisations to the job, and still the name sucks"