Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Why stay or start an FSF membership? To keep funding software freedom.

[Miles Fidelman]

Linus Torvalds, perhaps, as the next FSF President?  :-)

Miles Fidelman

On 9/21/19 12:28 AM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Caleb Herbert wrote:
> > Stallman told me I can best help by becoming a member and being
> > diligent about making sure they continue to do what they did when
> > Stallman was still there.
> I can believe that and (regardless of who said it) I agree with this 
> advice; the perspective of what we should be doing -- working for 
> software freedom -- is part of that advice. The irony of who it comes 
> from is also not lost on me but the larger goal is the critical point.
>
> Let's hope the FSF's next president has a commitment to software 
> freedom which compares favorably to Stallman's commitment. According 
> to 
> https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/freedom-misc/2019-September/004745.html 
> FSF Vice President Alexandre Oliva (of GNU Linux-libre fame) is Acting 
> President.
>
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