The primary activity of this list is one of empathy - tech support.  We often help one another, even if we're not having a problem.  RMS doesn't have to be your problem to be an problem our little community should help fix.

RMS is like an outdated library included in otherwise useful software - it makes it basically unusable and unmaintainable.  If that software is the first thing someone tries to use, they get so fed up with it that they leave and never come back.

He is so toxic to be around that free software has lost many people forever who would have been amazing.

What Evan is suggesting, and I am endorsing, is that we file a bug report.

On Wed., Mar. 24, 2021, 07:18 o1bigtenor via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:46 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk
<talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> ... hopefully, not for long.
>
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/free-software-advocates-seek-removal-of-richard-stallman-and-entire-fsf-board/
>
> I propose that GTALUG as an organization add its name to the petition, already signed by a healthy cross section of the FOSS world.
>
> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/
>

tl;dr
IMHO the complete brouha is political correctness run amok!

I would request that we return to the matter at hand - - - - computers
and computing and its tools and leave the
political correctness to the bureaucratic elite for whom it has become
a driving passion.
One needs to remember that the language of political correctness was
design to allow one to describe how to pick up a turd by its clean
end.
Secondly the bigger the bureaucracy the greater the likelihood that it
is a refuge for the unable, the unwilling and/or the incompetent.
Sloth and indogence are rewarded rather than activity and output.
This present direction is in process of destroying our society with
that end looming very very close.

Regards
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