Many people seem to be pretending that the pandemic is over. It isn’t. People are still getting Covid, becoming sick, and even in some cases becoming disabled. People’s plans are still being disrupted. Vulnerable people are still hiding.
Conference organisers: please make robust Covid policies, publish them early, and enforce them. And, clearly set expectations for your attendees.
Attendees: please don’t be the superspreader.
( Rant )
Here is what I wrote in my commit message:
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I published my first Free Software in 1989, under the GNU General
Public Licence. I remain committed to the ideal of software freedom,
for everyone.
When the CSAIL list incident blew up I was horrified to read the
stories of RMS's victims. We have collectively failed those people
and I am glad to see that many of us are working to make a better
community.
I have watched with horror as RMS has presided over, and condoned,
astonishingly horrible behaviour in many GNU Project discussion
venues.
The Free Software Foundation Board are doing real harm by reinstating
an abuser. I had hoped for and expected better from them.
RMS's vision and ideals of software freedom have been inspiring to me.
But his past behaviour and current attitudes mean he must not and can
not be in a leadership position in the Free Software community.
Comments are disabled. Edited 2021-03-23T21:44Z to fix a typo in the commit message.
