https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68004.html
"The Free Software Foundation Europe and the Software Freedom Conservancy
recently released a statement that they would no longer work with Eben Moglen,
chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center. Eben was the general counsel for
the Free Software Foundation for over 20 years, and was centrally involved in
the development of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. He's devoted a
great deal of his life to furthering free software.
But, as described in the joint statement, he's also acted abusively towards
other members of the free software community. He's acted poorly towards his own
staff. In a professional context, he's used graphically violent rhetoric to
describe people he dislikes. He's screamed abuse at people attempting to do
their job.
And, sadly, none of this comes as a surprise to me. As I wrote in 2017, after
it became clear that Eben's opinions diverged sufficiently from the FSF's that
he could no longer act as general counsel, he responded by threatening an FSF
board member at an FSF-run event (various members of the board were willing to
tolerate this, which is what led to me quitting the board). There's over a
decade's evidence of Eben engaging in abusive behaviour towards members of the
free software community, be they staff, colleagues, or just volunteers trying
to make the world a better place.
When we build communities that tolerate abuse, we exclude anyone unwilling to
tolerate being abused. Nobody in the free software community should be expected
to deal with being screamed at or threatened. Nobody should be afraid that
they're about to have their sexuality outed by a former boss."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
