Giacomo Tesio<span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/ekaitz_zarraga" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social</a></span><br><br>The <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Guix</a> leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.<br><br>I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for <a href="https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">this personal attack</a> to a neurodivergent <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hacker</a> such as <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=rms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RMS</a>.<br><br>It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with_Jeffrey_Epstein" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Minsky's memory</a> from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> social media) against RMS himself.<br><br>Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed <a href="https://rms-open-letter.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an even worse attack</a> built <a href="https://stallmansupport.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">on top of lies</a>.<br><br>These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.<br><br>Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=stallman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Stallman</a> fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly <b>protected</b> commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> and to the current use of <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.<br>Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNU</a> system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=esr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESR</a> to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hackers</a>.<br><br>But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.<br><br>So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019.<br>