Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?

[Miles Fidelman]

   I'm a dues-paying member.  I never received anything expressing the
   board's position, or asking for my input.

   Miles Fidelman

   On 9/21/19 10:32 AM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:

Caleb Herbert [1]<csh@bluehome.net> wrote:

On 09/20/2019 08:21 AM, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote:

No Leah, the way to go would have been to withdraw your membership - not renew i
t!

We should become or remain members, so we have a voice.

A voice?  You were an associate member when the mobbing had been on peak, weren
’t you?  Did FSF send you an email asking for your opinion?  Or did, at least, i
nform you about a decision, while it still was preliminary?

Yes, indeed, FSF, unlike some other foundations [1], makes efforts to gain indep
endence from transnational corporations by funding itself not from their ‘patron
age’ but from dues and donations from thousands of individual supporters.

But to whose voice did they lend an ear when they had to make a vital decision:
was it its grass root members’ voice?

[1] [2]https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

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References

   1. mailto:csh@bluehome.net
   2. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
   3. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
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