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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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Good News! Richard Stallman is Back at Free Software Foundation | It's FOSS News (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It’s always accusations, not a clear-cut case.

With Stallman, pretending it's not clear cut is ridiculous.

Some receipts.

Probably the most damning one:

In a 2007 interview, he said:

I don’t have any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.

A number of women have contributed to GCC, including:

Janis Johnson maintains the test suite and has been a contributor since 2001

Sandra Loosemore is the lead author of the GNU Library Reference Manual;[3] RMS is listed as her co-author.

Dorit Nuzman made major contributions to loop scheduling and vectorization.

Carolyn Tice is also mentioned as a contributor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If anything that just shows how fucking disconnected he is from everyone... it's kinda been like that for a long time, nothing new there

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

the 'everyone' he's disconnected from just happening to be his women colleagues, huh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Maybe, but in general he sometimes seems pretty disconnected from reality

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You do realize that's a bad attribute for someone leading the Free Software Foundation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Yes; and I wouldn't want him to lead the FSF. But having him on the board of directors is not the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

With Stallman, pretending it’s not clear cut is ridiculous.

The "not a clear-cut case" referred to Minsky and not Stallman. What are you claiming that Stallman is obviously guilty of? Because the discussion was on his alleged endorsement of child abuse and sexual assault and you linked to articles which make accusations based on assumptions and further dilute it with describing how disgusting and asocial he is. Your highlighted point in no way supports the claim of him endorsing such behaviors and comes from an interview, in which Stallman also states that:

I know most of the maintainers only through email, which means that I don’t know whether they are male or female unless their names show me. I just looked at the list: one maintainer is probably female, and a few others have names that might be male or female.

Yes, saying that no women contributed to GCC is false and wrong but it's not a reason to exclude him from the movement or a justification for the CancelStallman campaign.