Extra page for the good RMS and the FSF have done?

rms-support-letter / rms-support-letter.github.io

An open letter in support of Richard Matthew Stallman being reinstated by the Free Software Foundation

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

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Extra page for the good RMS and the FSF have done? #2441

Open ossimalvin opened 3 years ago

ossimalvin commented 3 years ago

Since the other repo has an extra page detailing why they believe RMS is evil incarnate, I think there should be an extra page on this repo detailing what the FSF has done for open source and maybe some links to donation pages and other ways to support the project.

shenlebantongying commented 3 years ago

Some detailed investigations from the past:

Bio:

Internet hall of fame https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman
britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Stallman
Free as in Freedom (2.0) https://sagitter.fedorapeople.org/faif-2.0.pdf
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/r/Richard_Stallman.htm

His good thinkings:

GNU's philosophy page is somehow curated list of his good thinking https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
Free software, free society - selected essays of Richard Stallman

6r1d commented 3 years ago

Proof RMS is Still Important

Why RMS is a Great Mascot and spokesperson for Free Software

nukeop commented 3 years ago

Please document this, it's very important.

dodobyte commented 3 years ago

that's a good one https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stallman/

Bruising6802 commented 3 years ago

Since the other repo has an extra page detailing why they believe RMS is evil incarnate, I think there should be an extra page on this repo detailing what the FSF has done for open source and maybe some links to donation pages and other ways to support the project.

Yeah this guy literally changed the whole goddamn world with GNU, GNU/Linux and FSF.

michaelkarlcoleman commented 3 years ago

RMS has arguably done more to make the world a better place than any other computer programmer, living or dead.

jobbautista9 commented 3 years ago

We can put the extras to the repo's wiki, so that it can be easily edited.

shenlebantongying commented 3 years ago

I think a Redditor has done a big job https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/meot29/dissecting_hate_speech_the_rms_open_letter/

romanrm commented 3 years ago

See https://stallmansupport.org/ and specifically https://stallmansupport.org/richard-stallman-honors-and-awards.html

shenlebantongying commented 3 years ago

https://stallmansupport.org/ has been endorsed by RMS himself and that page link to us.

Maybe we can add a link to README?