Telling someone to resign from their own project is rather silly, and revealing of a grandiose sensibility. Free software developers can typically work on whatever projects they want to, and are usually not subordinates taking orders from superiors. They should listen to the concerns of users, but ultimately follow their own conscience.
That said, the points about Eunomia and contradictory sponsorship claims are valid. As far as I can tell Eunomia is an EU NGO gravy train hitching on the coat tails of a moral panic around “fake news”. That panic is already past its sell by date, and I don’t expect Eunomia to have any substantial consequences.
I’m glad to see there’s actually very few signatures, and I hope Eugen ignores it. What a bunch of entitled brats - if they don’t like what’s going on, they can fork the project. Or they can write their own IOS app with all the goodies they want on it.
The letter’s kind of all over the place, too… more like trying to smear dirt and it’s not terribly focused.
Maybe the signatories and the originator should be contacted with a note stating “Why do you think this hasn’t gone anywhere?”
I agree. The only issue I really disagree on is that he doesn’t want to add groups to Mastodon which is a pretty important feature of social networking sites.
I’m old enough that I remember when the same sort of smear tactics were deployed by certain companies against anyone writing popular open source projects.
Telling someone to resign from their own project is rather silly, and revealing of a grandiose sensibility. Free software developers can typically work on whatever projects they want to, and are usually not subordinates taking orders from superiors. They should listen to the concerns of users, but ultimately follow their own conscience.
That said, the points about Eunomia and contradictory sponsorship claims are valid. As far as I can tell Eunomia is an EU NGO gravy train hitching on the coat tails of a moral panic around “fake news”. That panic is already past its sell by date, and I don’t expect Eunomia to have any substantial consequences.
I’m glad to see there’s actually very few signatures, and I hope Eugen ignores it. What a bunch of entitled brats - if they don’t like what’s going on, they can fork the project. Or they can write their own IOS app with all the goodies they want on it.
The letter’s kind of all over the place, too… more like trying to smear dirt and it’s not terribly focused.
Maybe the signatories and the originator should be contacted with a note stating “Why do you think this hasn’t gone anywhere?”
I mean, really, how insulting to Eugen.
I agree. The only issue I really disagree on is that he doesn’t want to add groups to Mastodon which is a pretty important feature of social networking sites.
I’m old enough that I remember when the same sort of smear tactics were deployed by certain companies against anyone writing popular open source projects.
Just a point: their own project?
It is true that Eugen Rocko is the main developer and the one who more contributed but Mastodon is not their project itself.
Edited: it is even set in the copyright notice.