Richard me pidió que enviara este mensaje a la lista de SoLAr, aclarando el tema de la lista free-software-group, lo que allí aconteció, y cómo y por qué fue reemplazada por la lista [email protected] Disculpen el envío fallido de hace un rato. Lo reenvío en un formato más simple. Fede ======================================================================== From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: The two lists Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:03:13 -0500 (20:03 BRT) Please forward thus to the SoLAr list. The [email protected] mailing list, which Pablo Machón created at the FSF's request, is the FSF's replacement for the free-software-group list, which was created by Niibe Yutaka of the Free Software Initiative Japan for planning our activities. Niibe's list was unable to serve its purpose, because certain people used it to pursue a personal grudge against various FSF leaders, posting unjust criticism of Federico Heinz, Georg Greve and others. I suggested that we should moderate the list to prevent it from being disrupted by personal grudge attacks. Niibe's list software could not do this, so this change required moving the list as well. Pablo set up the replacement list. I take full responsibility for the decision to moderate the list, but I do not apologize for it. This control is the control we need in order to get work done in the face of disruption. It is necessary, and we will continue it. David Sugar wrote: Richard gave a completely different explanation to Stefeno when he met him in Turin last week. Richard said this was done because Stefano's public list could have public archives. I did not say that. As the game "telephone" shows, when words are repeated by one person to another, they tend to get distorted at each step, even with the best of will. I think that has happened here. The practice of reposting all the mail on our list onto the Hipatia list was of concern because it caused confusion about which list was the official successor of Niibe's list. But that is not why Stefano Barale was removed from the FSF's list. I advised Pablo to remove from the list anyone that criticizes the list itself. Stefano Barale had done so, so Pablo removed him. Pablo may remove others from the list for the same reason, if he finds it appropriate. I leave it to his judgment when to do this, and I have stand behind his decisions. People have a right to express their opinions of our work, whether positive or negative; but when those opinions are negative, we will generally choose not to include them in our work. The free software community is a big place, and the FSF is just a part of it. Those who wish to work for free software but don't like something about the FSF have plenty of room to carry out their own activities. The friction between certain members of SoLAr and Hipatia and some FSF leaders comes from events where we tried to work together. If we can't work with them, we will wish their free software activities success from a distance.