Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

If the GNOME Foundation is considering inviting members of the
community to use Bountysource to communicate with the Foundation, that
raises two ethical issues:

* Privacy.  This would result in giving Bountysource people's personal data,
which it shouldn't have any right to know.

* Free software.  Many web sites require visitors to run nonfree
software to use some or even all of the functionality.  See
http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.  Does Bountysource
work without nonfree JS?  I don't know, but one can't presume that.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.