\On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
No, don't worry. I don't call names on anyone. As RMS said, I'm not glad that he died, but I'm glad that he's gone. I believe in the value of human life above all else.
even the worst person in the world, if we encounter them, simply shows us whom we are. our reactions to them, our thoughts - our actions.
what i've learned over many years of working not just with software libre but with many other people is that i act as an accelerant. just being around others brings out the best *and* the worst in them - both being good things, in different ways. the "good" is obvious, but the "bad" tends to be *so extreme* - something that was otherwise completely non-obvious even to them let alone those people adversely affected - that it cannot be ignored any longer, or comes to the attention of a wider audience.
i've been censored approximately *five* times from various different projects over the past seventeen years. *every single one of them*, by failing to acknowledge and deal with the underlying problems within their team and problematic members - has, some twelve to eighteen months later, had some form of catastrophic implosion in the form of loss of contributors in, users of, scope and relevance of, or funding of the project.
everyone has a role to play.
more tomorrow bill, i'll read the rest then: it's 4:30am here.
l.