@ariadne every time a tech bro says "software shouldn't be political" I want to take away their computer touching privileges forever 🫩

@ariadne this is the 21st century version of ‘at least we’ve got great Autobahns and the trains are running on time’. Seriously. Wtaf.

@ariadne You are more evil than the maintainer by not including the full message in the post in the first place. Including it in replies merely corrects some of many misunderstandings

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Awful. Particularly since it looks like a clear majority of subsequent participants in the thread agree with him.

A tricksy thought, though: in some jurisdictions, businesses are required by law to show due diligence in avoiding the use of slavery or forced labour by their suppliers and/or "value chain partners". I wonder how the existence of a public statement like this affects the ability of those businesses either to use GNU software or to collaborate in the development of GNU software.

@ariadne The text in context, on the mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00201.html

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Pierre Joseph Proudhon: Everyone agrees that slavery is murder, so when I say that property is theft...

GNU guy: woah woah woah, back up.

@ariadne Occupy FOSS

@ariadne I'm not surprised by GNU taking the "freedom is slavery" position. I'm a *little* surprised they were so literal about it.

@ariadne watch the saudi wealth fund become their biggest donor next year

@ariadne I respect the trimming of names and emails but if anybody deserves an old fashioned pile on it's that guy.

@ariadne Jesus fucking Christ.

@ariadne@treehouse.systems if your ethics are defined by legality, then your ethics aren't worth anything, imo

this is just gross

@ariadne His name is Eli Zaretskii, we need to name fascists.

@ariadne Living by principles is hard. Moral decisions aren't supposed to make you feel warm and fuzzy.

RMS has been demonstrably problematic over the years. I hereby condemn you all for using FSF software.

Or maybe I don't.

@ariadne @gsuberland holy crap. Who? What project, or are they responsible for multiple projects, or policy, or…? When? Where?

This is not an expression of doubt. GNU and the FSF have a long and proud tradition of disappointing me greatly. I just need some context to hook it to.