@ariadne

GNU maintainers, Take on slavery

Some are absolute fscking assholes and should, as a fitting answer to such a statement _ be enslaved for life.....

@ariadne Anything is deemed acceptable, as long as it serves the cult.

I wonder for how long more won't be recognized that even good intentions, and movements for freedom, can easily derail into cultism.
If you read well the statements of the founders, decades ago, the seed had been planted.

@ariadne ???? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

@ariadne Chrst this email thread is something

@ariadne "freedom ain't free" ahh statement qwq

@ariadne
Yes crazy, or a lost idiot in the team...

@ariadne Just to be clear, this would probably be a crime in both the UK and USA under modern slavery laws.

@ariadne
Wow 😳
@JauneBaguette

@ariadne gonna recommend punching both the asker and the askee here

@ariadne so desperate to rip off other people's work off that they're willing to justify slavery to do it

@ariadne They've been very consistent when it comes to software freedom over any particular set of ethics.

@ariadne wow

@ariadne Keep political philosophy as far as possible from STEM folks.

@ariadne in literally no other industry would slave labour be an acceptable part of the goods pipeline, irrespective of its legal status. No company or industry would proudly and publicly say they purchase raw materials produced through slave labour. It's completely insane.

@ariadne
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00126.html

The response came from Eli Zaretskii, one GNU maintainer, who is an asshole. A zealot with a narrow minded view of the ethics that should be employed for emacs development, prizing above all else the avoidance of community fracture, even at the cost of basic morals. He doesn't speak for all.