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The DeVault Report (sizeof.cat)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ngn@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] halm@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I only read up to the part where they pinned the Stallman Report on DeVault and then claimed that thing they just mentioned definitely had nothing to do with this hit piece, nope, nothing.

Need I read any further, i.e. does this have legs beyond "we dug up some dirt on this guy because he said bad things about our groupthink ringleader"?

[–] mke@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

For what it's worth, the rest of the report is mostly fine, and I'm inclined to believe I learned something about Drew. But I also felt that was not honest, and question if it had to be included at all. Looking around, it seems the author likes Stallman, and regardless of how they felt before, they probably disliked Drew when they found he was connected to the Stallman report.

So thanks for mentioning that weird vibe. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who paused at that section.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Up to you. Two people can make mistakes at the same time. Whether there is truth to the claims, I'm not sure, but if there is truth then there are some unpleasant details in it.

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not invested in either online opinion-haver, but have read the occasional tech post by both that made sense... in isolation from their idiosyncratic ickinesses.

I'm sure this "DeVault Report" may have truth to it, I was just turned off by the first, retaliatory paragraphs. Like, "we could've let you perv on minors, but then you went after our guy" vibes.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the timing of the article makes it clear what the motive is. It's to distract discussion away from the article about Stallman.

[–] ngn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

i explained this in another post

this report shows that drew clearly did not care about the unethical takes of stallman when he created the stallman report, the report was an attack on the FSF and the free software community in general and people were unable to recognize this when the report was first published

so this report (hopefully) will help people recognize the situation now, thats why i shared it in the first place