Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

FSF, GNU and wikipedia come to mind. They may not be that easy but certainly possible. Actually, sometimes simply making the content easily available is enough. No image was lost from openclipart because they were all previously easily available.


What about RMS's recent scandal? He was certainly the face everyone associates with the FSF, and even though he can be removed, it still hurts the foundation's reputation


It is a scandal in the eyes of people that want to be offended in my opinion. He called Epstein a rapist. The witch hunting did cost much more reputation and I fear that isn't recoverable.


You're right. But I still can git-clone gnu nano, all of its dependencies and compile it on my own hardware. If fsf ever goes belly-up one still can do so with any source they ever made available. Users of software supported by FSF are immune from any kind of FSF takeover.

But indeed, FSF has to consider if RMS does more harm than good or put him in a position where he can do no harm.


What about it? Nobody said anyone could be immune from having their reputation hurt, that's not what we were talking about.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: