Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social

#USPTO now demands disclosure of personal/home/residential addresses to register a #trademark for those w/out office space. Bad privacy policy! We're asking them to fix it: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/19/uspto-personal-addresses/ #FOSS is unduly impacted since our projects & orgs are usually virtual/telecommute!

Every time you think: "But what about all the good things he did", consider: "What about all the people and potentially great contributions we lost because of him."

#RMS #FreeSoftware

We don't need leaders any more. We never did.

Richard Stallman resigns as president of the Free Software Foundation

Our statement: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190917-01.html

The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom. Our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. RMS does not speak for these values.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

#Stallman and to some extent the structural constitution of the #GNU project and the #FSF that solely revolves around #rms' vision of the world and society—with absolutely no room for other opinions—has always been problematic. It's indeed not new at all. It has overshadowed and prevented the development of free software to be more culturally diverse and a more politicised effort. Similarly, his dogmatic attitude has created throughout the years a situation where free software communities are having a hard time to be self critical and are effectively unable to evaluate the nature of their discourse. Ultimately, there has been increasing cognitive dissonance between the values they believe sharing and their actions, with sometimes quite aggressive response to even the slightest form of criticism and critique of anything related to software/user freedom. At best, criticism is deflected by tweaking the terminology and the language used, and if needed new definitions of words are created to defuse problematic statements. Hopefully these kind of exposures and open discussions will help move forward work on software and cultural freedom, in general, and not lead to complete implosion.

#FOSS #MIT #Minsky #Epstein

This is the official account for the Libre Lounge podcast (https://librelounge.org) - A podcast about User Freedom, hosted by @cwebber and @emacsen

What can you do in a single HTML page? https://onehtmlpagechallenge.com/

Consider unfollowing that person that always leaves you feeling worse about things.

Tech docs have better typography these days than most big online publishers (aka newspapers).

It's our birthday today! We are now the wise age of 22. 😋 Join us in reminiscing these past years by sharing some of your favorite GNOME memories!

List of shame with 0ver projects (long lasting 0.x version) 😂 #SemVer #CalVer http://0ver.org

message I sent KaiOSTech (@kaiostech@twitter.com) via Twitter, no idea if they'll ever respond...

Where can I get a #KaiOS device (no mobile service) in the #USA that I could test, play around with and write a report about? By the way, is there a keyboard (similar to #JioPhone) and/or touch screen version?