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

[Leah Rowe]

> Caleb Herbert <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 it!
> >
> > 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, inform you about a decision, while it
> still was preliminary?
> 
> Yes, indeed, FSF, unlike some other foundations [1], makes efforts to
> gain independence from transnational corporations by funding itself
> not from their ‘patronage’ 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] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

I take objection to this; RMS resigned of his own free will, not
because the FSF pushed him out.


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