9:08 a.m.
Andreas Enge <andreas(a)enge.fr> writes:
Hello,
Am Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 07:03:37PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic
Courtès:
> > Please just drop the Microsoft/GitHub analogy. The analogy
> > isn't really
> > accurate. It doesn't really make things more clear, just
> > invites
> > speculation how that analogy really works.
>
> That said, if there’s consensus, I have nothing against
> dropping the
> GitHub analogy; I thought it would be helpful but we can do
> without.
I was also not so excited to see the comparison; it could even
lead the
people who uphold conspiracy myths to claim that we endorse
Microsoft
or Github.
Yeah, let’s scrap it then. If there’s sufficient potential to
misunderstand it (and more nuance is required to accurately
represent the changing role of the FSF in the past decades) it
could harm more than help.
--
Ricardo