I'm sorry but this does not seem right. "GNOME is principled"?
The GNOME Foundation, along with many GNOME-affiliated people, signed the open letter to "remove RMS", a harsh personal attack citing misleading sources. When this is pointed out to them, they do not apologize, they do not retract, mostly they just look the other way and pretend like nothing.
See https://edsantos.eu/on-stalman/
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When you are attacking another person and using something false as a basis for that, you are doing something wrong. If you did that by mistake you should take it back and apologize.
If you will not apologize after doing something as bad as that, then please, at least do not call yourself "principled".
One exception is Michael Meeks who does seem principled: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2021-04-12-excommunicating.html
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@thibaultamartin @gnome
That post about "The GNOME Way", saying "GNOME is principled"... I understand that was written in 2017 so it was before the open letter, but now, today, do you really think that "GNOME is principled" is a reasonable statement?
For me "The GNOME Way" seems pretty far from being principled.
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