Call to stop contributing

[Johannes Brakensiek]

Dear GNUsteppers, Mr. Stallman,

it is not as if I do like to write this mail, but I think I have to, 
since you, Mr. Stallman, again took chair in the FSF board and posted 
mails to this list suggesting development decisions.

I’d like to clarify in advance that this statement does not contain 
any personal objections and I highly value any contributions of past and 
presence to a free and democratic digital world.

But I think it is important for any project contributing to a free 
world, that engagement for personal freedom can in no way tolerate or 
even support (even by just being silent) any form of abusive behaviour 
against children and women or any opinion that is tolerating or even 
supporting such behaviour.

So as lang as neither you, Mr. Stallman, nor the FSF board distance 
oneself from such opinion or behaviour (f.e. be distancing to statements 
declared in earlier times or by signing an appropriate code of conduct) 
I’m going to stop contributing to any kind of GNU project and call all 
developers to do the same.

I suggest the GNUstep project to wait for such statements and in case 
they don’t happen, to fork the project, remove the GNU acronym from 
its name and to break up any connection with the FSF.

For further information see https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

Johannes