The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: essay

On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

>>                       What comes after GNU?
>
>I like the `post-GNU' name; it carries the implication that we've
>advanced beyond GNU, rather than (say) compromised free software
>principles.  I think that distributing this document now may have the
>effect of pouring oil on the flamewar, though, but don't let me stop
>you.

I don't like it, for similar reasons.  I don't think I'd go as far
as to say that it implies that we've advanced beyond GNU, but I
would say that it begs the inference.  I think that distributing
this document might have the effect of pouring something more
combustable than oil on the flameware -- perhaps kerosene.

If our policies WRT including non-free and other non-GNU software
in the distribution have changed substantially since we broke the
bond with RMS & company, I've missed it.  I think that GNU-plus
would be more closely descriptive of Debian than post-GNU, but
I also think that term would be more inflammatory than the term
post-GNU -- especially as it would single out GNU.  It'd be just
as accurate, or inaccurate, to say BSD-plus, or Linux-plus, or
free-software-plus.

I don't think Debian gains anything by provoking bad feelings from
RMS.  We'll be better off going quietly on our own way, incorporating
GPL'd software under the terms of the GPL with no comment beyond
grateful acknowledgement to those who make it available, IMO, than
floating terms like post-GNU publicly.

My $.02 worth.