RMS and his actions/policies/FREE SOFTWARE

After having posted this thread:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/end-trisquel-we-know-it

"The END of Trisquel as we know it"

Once again, there were many comments posted to that thread and I gained more incitement into the mentality of the FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY...

It forced me to reflect on the past, the present, and our future.

RMS started the FREE SOFTWARE movement and the GPL license.
In the beginning years, RMS felt that the license was the only key you needed for success in developing a FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY.

When the internet became readily available to the general public in the 90's, RMS began to make speeches and later video's covering the subject of users privacy rights.

Of these many PSA video's RMS did, the one related to Trisquel which sticks out in my mind was this one.

RMS on Ubuntu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc

What also struck me as funny was RMS directly dumping Debian as the FSF endorsed OS of choice for this new OS called Trisquel. Trisquel was based on Debian at first but later rebased itself on the 'evil' Ubuntu OS.

Trisquel did provide it's users a dependable, modern OS which didn't spy on it's users and did not include any non-free software.

But, when I do a search for these two search strings "RMS on systemD" "RMS on snaps" I get nothing - zippo... RMS has had nothing to say on these two subjects.

That's a pitty because RMS and the FSF have told us all that the BSD license is a FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE.

Let's take the first search term "systemD"..
systemD is for Linux only. You can not port systemD to any of the bsd distro's.
You also can not port systemD to any OS running the GNU/Hurd. So, RMS never put his hand up to the implementation of systemD and it's effects on his FREE SOFTWARE neighbors.

Trisquel removed Flatpak's from their distro and are in the process or removing snap's as well. Flatpaks and snaps have non-free software. You also can not port either one of these systems to a bsd distro or GNU/Hurd.

RMS did not put his hand up to Flatpaks nor snaps, that I can find.

RMS was not concerned with the kinds of damage done when you ignore interoperability amongst the FREE SOFTWARE "COMMUNITY"... "COMMUNITY"...

Even on Slackware, you can install access of Flatpaks but you can not install kdenlive as a Flatpak as it has a systemD dependency. The two walk hand in hand.

On my last thread, the end of Trisquel as we know it,,, I posted the following link to a video from Martin W.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLm3HkZ-sMs

Martin has been made head of canonical desktops.

Martin has clearly stated in this video that the goal of canonical will be to outsource not only all the desktop apps to snaps but server infrastructure as well. Your LAMP stack will be a snap. Your postgres will be a snap. ect..

NetBSD will have to develop or find or implement various libraries and daemons to emulate systemD to run may of the apps we see in Linux. So will Gentoo, so will Slackware, so will VOID, so will GUIX, and on and on. It wasn't just the bsd camps who have been crippled by this.

These projects have limited manpower. And they are spending more and more of their time just emulating things like systemD, coding over radeon and intel drm into their kernels from the Linux kernel, and soon they will find that all app vendors offer their programs only in a snap format.

Why will they only offer it in a snap format??? Because they have limited manpower as well. They won't have the energy to produce source tar balls and help these various distro's get their software compiled and running with the right libraries as they once did. It's easier to just use snaps. Debian packages and RPM will slowly become a thing of the past just as the source tar balls disappeared. This has happened before as Pat V. of Slackware has been quoted as saying often the only way we can get source is via a SRPM.

The 'evil' operating system, known as Ubuntu, is still alive and well after having miserably failed to implement upstart, mir and unity. They go on to destroy the FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY in other ways.

And what of the magic of RMS, the FSF, and their Trisquel endorsement to the world? Where did that magic go which was used to tame that beast known as Ubuntu and produce Trisquel???

And this is exactly why, in my mind alone, I have the following things recorded.

GUIX is our replacement of all UNIX like OS's. It replaces ARCH linux as well as GENTOO. Someday, GUIX will even take on NetBSD for portability. GUIX is the sharp end of the GNU stick...

Devuan for our stable FREE SOFTWARE OS. Because Devuan is a rebel. It's going to break away from Debian. Debian will eventually suffer the same fate as Ubuntu. snaps will eat them both. Let' Devuan stop feeding over Debian's shoulder and make them stand on their own, replacing Debian.

And Trisquel should be based on Devuan, not Debian or Ubuntu.
Because in order to be a FSF OS, you have to use only Free Software, you must respect users privacy and freedom, you must also respect community interoperability. Otherwise, you really have nothing.

You have nothing but another mess to move to somewhere else...

As with GUIX, Trisquel should not be holding a cup out on a street corner wondering which bridge it will sleep under this cold winters night.

There are only two types of people. Those who support commercialization of FREE SOFTWARE. And those who DO NOT... There is no in-between here..

And that is what RMS should have stood up for. Not divide and conquer.
Not turn your head the other way when you implemented something which ONLY WORKS ON LINUX and heck, only certain kinds of LINUX structures ,,,, even worse....

Free License, Freedom, Privacy, Interoperability... FFPI

Charlie