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Include your name (preferrably real name), and a website or email.
Also acceptable are entries from organizations if you represent them.

Please follow this format:

name: your real name
link: <your-github-repo>

#127

Like https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix, containing arguments as to why one should sign this letter (possibly countering the linked appendix).

By the way I created an issue containing criticism of the appendix of the sister site at https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/issues/951 but despite both parties being civil it ended up being deleted and I got blocked from the repo. I have attached a picture of it before getting deleted.

Just for ease of reading.

-Scrolls04

Спасибо, что поддерживаете великого и главного сторонника СПО! Но а что касаемо репозитория аккаунта https://github.com/rms-open-letter, я советую вам подать жалобу на этот аккаунт за оскорбление Ричарда.
К слову, в том репозитории я высказал все, что о них думал, и issue просто удалили...

The list of names is unsorted, so it makes it look a little bit unprofessional. I like sorting it by names as well so that we make sure there are no duplicates.

Can someone take the effort to write a script to sort the list automatically alphabetically?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2015-12/msg00168.html

GitHub does things that are quite bad for free software and is
not interested in changing them.

I've already signed, but now my sing dont appear any more! It says, there are conflicts, but I dont know how to resolve it....

I'll leave it here since it may be of interest:

https://medium.com/think-do-tank/open-letter-to-the-free-software-movement-7ddc7429b474

our letter here was posted in solidarity with RMS and addressed to anyone who is part of the free software movement, to make sure our principles are clear. My fear is that someone is taking advantage of this personalizing fuzz to lose the focus on principles.

I know, that there exists a Mail [email protected] etc., but to show that the community behind RMS are big it is important to accumulate the signing here. And this is done, if normal users (not IT-guys) could sign too. Actual signing process is nearly impossible to understand. So, please, make some mail-adress from where someone will pick the signings and add them to the list

Express my support for Richard Stallman

In case we lose the war (narrowly), and in case the number of signatures on their petty petition roves sufficient to get Richard Matthew Stallman disbarred from directing (or at the very least being part of) the Free Software Foundation, the internet cuts both ways.

I, at random stumbled upon the signature of Bryan Cantrill, a person who firsthand knows what it is to make a stupid comment and be hounded by it for years. Moreover, the motivation, the behaviour espoused by this individual, is precisely the kind that Richard Stallman is accused of, and which precipitated the need for this repository.

The user karmich (above my username) is linked twice.

How to make a pull request to sign the petition?

add me pl0x

I can help accepting pull requests, free today, mostly

It compares poorly to the other letter.

I think that signatures that are real names, instead of just Github nicknames should be moved to the top. I can see why some people would not use their real life credentials when signing, and you shouldn't force them to, but it would probably make a better impression if people who open the letter immediately see that real people have signed it (and it could set an example to make people more willing to use their real name when signing).

Did this petition get posted someplace Russian?

(Satire)

Maybe the cancel lynch mob attacking the FSF can use this software to cancel all the things from their safe spaces?

https://github.com/parazyd/cancel

I got cancelled from contributing to the other anti-FSF open letter, so I signed this letter and hope to cancel the cancellers.

To make this more accessible, and to get people more prone to signing in favour of Stallman, there should be a tutorial on how to use Git linked in the README, and have this also be a way for people to get a small start/understandment on Git.

There may be fewer people on our signature list, but we have more stars--this means even though many people are afraid of talking about their support for Stallman in public, they still support us via GitHub repository stars. Good job everyone, we'll win in the end!

have fun you guys

continuation of https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/issues/848 (issue has since been deleted) in a place where discussion is allowed
since the people behind that repository have shown they are unwilling to have one like an adult

Here is a list of locked issues

[1] https://xkcd.com/1357/

[2]
some improvements https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/issues/401 (archive), rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io#791 (archive) & rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io#910 (archive) have been opened to correct the letter and have been rejected with the reasoning that the letter has been signed by too many people that altering would invalidate the the signatures

Here is a list of people in charge of the open letter repository

• @mollydb
• @neilmcgovern
• @ehashman

This list does not exist to encourage harrasment, and I beg you not to go after these people, but rather mirrors my belives from this issue (archive last comment) which I am going to paraphrase again in the case it gets deleted:

• While I believe the opinion of everyone matters I also believe that on certain subjects the opinion of people outside of the subject is inherently of less value

It is best to make your own judgement on the letter and this just stands to document what has happened
In no way am I saying that closing, locking or deleting is a bad thing but the people above have not only proven to be that they are unwilling to have a discussion debating points of the letter but are also willingly malicious by citing points that are no longer true or outright lies and being unwilling to append a correction

GitHub is non-free platform and many people who really support free software, just refuse to use it.

I suggest making a mailing list for those people.

How can i singing using phone?
Please, sing me https://github.com/VictorNRA

• For each repo of {rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io, rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io}:

  • get via GH API nicknames of {stargazers, forks owners}

• for each user compute a vector describing its membership in orgs and companies (1 - member, 0 - non-member). Can be detected by orgs and by company field in user's profile

• compute an Euler's diagram (a - b, b - a, a ^ b)

• for nonintersecting users compute correlation of their position (binary variable, 0 - pro-Stallman, 1 - against-Stallman) to the companies they are members of

• sort the results and plot the nice plots

It also may be possible to train an XGBoost model predicting the position from memberships in companies and repos, and then apply SHAP, and again visualize feature importances.

query ($cursor: String = null) {
  repository(name: "rms-open-letter.github.io", owner: "rms-open-letter") {
    pullRequests(first: 100, after: $cursor, states: MERGED) {
      pageInfo {
        endCursor
        hasNextPage
      }
      nodes {
        author {
          ... on User {
            company
            location
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/blob/master/_data/signed/chinese.yaml

He/it signed two letters, and turn out it's just an ad or spam.

give people signing the letter the ability to present their current position or title

Creative Social media preview image design is needed for this support letter.
The image should be at least 640×320px (1280×640px for best display).
Download template.

Once done, image needs to be placed into ./assets subdirectory.

Hands off the RMS!
Руки прочь от Столлмана!

I don't know, it seems Molly de Blanc (and possibly Neil McGovern) has been planning to attack FSF for a long time. Their appendix is creepy and hide every good things RMS has done.

There are some resources from last year on defending RMS. The first one also recap the whole story

https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/

https://sterling-archermedes.github.io

Remove it from repo to prevent people from creating PRs on it, and generate it at build phase via GitHub Action.

Will implement in a few hours if no one does that before.

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All signatures should be in _data/signed, yet there are files in _data and _data/signed/https:/github.com/...

Also, field names in yaml should be all lowercase. There are some people that had written Name: instead of name: this results in empty entries in the list, because jekyll can't find name.

RMS doesn't give a damn about freedom. Look at how he worded Texas' decision to return to the basic constitutinoal freedoms:

He's completely in favor of unconstitutional lockdowns and mask mandates while claiming to be a freedom activist. We don't need him to promote free software any more.

Hey, would you consider having the list of signees be numbered?

Just for the added ease of being able to read the number of signatures quickly.

If you like something on github then others can see that and open your profile.
Any who wants to be public can provide his/her email in account settings (as well as url and so on).

And all others who just want to show their position and support Richard Matthew Stallman just LIKE THIS POST ))

P.S. To click star on this repo is also good idea.