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The Free Software Foundation's Mission Could Use Outside Help

Last night: The Free Software Foundation Will Be Far Stronger With Richard Stallman Back On Its Board

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Summary: Free software advocacy is very important because Software Freedom has suffered severely in recent years; it's possible to campaign for Software Freedom at many levels as such campaigning is not a monopoly

Less than a month prior to the RMS 'incident' (mailing list post taken somewhat out of context or intentionally distorted by hostile media) we published "Guarding and Rescuing the FSF Titanic: A Free (as in Freedom) Library, and Federation of Advocates" (seeing that the FSF had grown tired, lost morale and had people looking for excuses to dethrone Stallman, who still supports the FSF). This wasn't too surprising as we had heard rumours to that effect; the swords weren't out just yet, only concealed, waiting for the right timing, moment or the opportunity (piggybacking a lynch mob). The Free Media Alliance wrote the series "Guarding and Rescuing the FSF Titanic" because there was a growing perception that a coup may be imminent (after brewing for months).



"Think of it as "social control media" without/sans the "control" and with more freedom instead."Software Freedom has long been a federated 'enterprise', with branches or chapters of the FSF in Latin America, Europe, India and more (lesser known ones). Here's a new list of several more (without association/affiliation/connections to the FSF) and a guide (work in progress) on how to further decentralise Free software advocacy.

Hours ago we learned that the Free Media Alliance prepares yet another article on this matter. The intention is not to replace FSF* but to bolster its goals and add "fire power" towards these goals. Think of it as "social control media" without/sans the "control" and with more freedom instead. That includes free speech -- something that everyone including Richard Stallman deserves (not everyone at FSF agrees).

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