• # Le récit de Bradley M. Kuhn

    Posté par (site web personnel, Mastodon) . En réponse au lien Joint Statement by FSFE and Software Freedom Conservancy Regarding Eben Moglen and SFLC. Évalué à 3.

    Eben Moglen & SFLC — abusive employer & LGBTQIA+ unfriendly

    Le récit sur Eben Moglen est répugnant, mais l'auteur apporte tout de même une note d'espoir :

    I do think tech in general and FOSS in particular are much more LGBTQIA+-friendly than they once were. However, there has been a huge anti-LGBTQIA+ backlash in certain areas of the USA in recent years, so even as I became more comfortable with the idea of being "out", I also felt (and do feel) that the world has recently gotten a lot more dangerous for LGBTQIA+ folks. Folks like Moglen who wage "total war" against their political opponents know this, and it is precisely why they try to cast phrases like bisexual, gay, queer, and "sex therapist" as salacious.
    (...) But, logically I know that I'm safe being a queer person (at least in the small FOSS world) — for two big reasons. First, the FOSS community of today is (in most cases) very welcoming to LGBTQIA+ folks and most of the cishet folks in FOSS identify as LGBTQIA+ allies. Second, I sheepishly admit that as I've reached my 0x32'nd year of life this year, I have a 20+ year credentialed career that has left me in a position of authority and privilege as a FOSS leader. I gain inherent safety from my position of power in the community to just be who I am.

    Pour rappel, Eben Moglen c'est le co-auteur de la GPLv3. Le Framablog disait de lui en 2008 qu'il était "un des meilleurs orateurs de la communauté du logiciel libre".