[BALUG-Talk] Richard M. Stallman has resigned from FSF and from MIT CSAIL

[Claude Jager-Rubinson]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, at 1:38 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Claude Jager-Rubinson (cjr@grundrisse.org):
> 
> > What's the basis for your interpretation/speculation of this being
> > used opportunistically, specifically by the Software Freedom
> > Conservancy?
> 
> (On an unsigned editorial, really?)

Lack of signatures means that it speaks for the board of directors and executives of the Conservancy.  Just like a newspaper editorial.  They aren't signed either but speak for the entire editorial board.

> Observation of deteriorating behaviour from that and some other non-profits allegedly serving open source / free software
> (very notably SFLC and Linux Foundation, both rather worse IMO).
> 
> If you expected me to work to convince you, you are likely to be disappointed.

Fully agree about SFLC and LF.  I'm just wondering if I missed something about the Conservancy?  (Aside from that trademark dispute with the SFLC a few years ago, although I still don't really understand what was going on there).