My biggest worry is that these political fights will lead to a degradation in the quality of Free software products, a slowdown in code and software contributions from developers and coders and a general malaise in the whole Free software movement as the idealogical battles are fought out. I can only see the winners in the long run being those people or organisations that seek to gain from the FSF's weakness.
But this is what this letter is all about. They are not targeting RMS but the whole Free Software Movement. A lot of companies supporting this letter make millions with proprietary software, privacy invasion, user manipulation and planned obsolescence. They aren't targeting Stallman because they want Free Software Movement to succeed. They are targeting Stallman because it can cause a fracture in the movement.
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My biggest worry is that these political fights will lead to a degradation in the quality of Free software products, a slowdown in code and software contributions from developers and coders and a general malaise in the whole Free software movement as the idealogical battles are fought out. I can only see the winners in the long run being those people or organisations that seek to gain from the FSF's weakness.
But this is what this letter is all about. They are not targeting RMS but the whole Free Software Movement. A lot of companies supporting this letter make millions with proprietary software, privacy invasion, user manipulation and planned obsolescence. They aren't targeting Stallman because they want Free Software Movement to succeed. They are targeting Stallman because it can cause a fracture in the movement.