The case is already making some news: in the context of LLM / “AI” contributions to Emacs and to Free Software in general, a core dev of Emacs made the statement that Emacs, and FOSS in general, “must” support code or contributions generated via slavery.
Responses, of course, are ongoing.
What is the fork if Emacs turns out to have been turned into a fascist playground just like so many other projects? The surrounding context suggests one: “Human Emacs”.
[1] https://www.flyingpenguin.com/gnu-maintainer-slave-made-code-yes/ [2] https://mathstodon.xyz/@divyaranjan/117581331940423337
Let me guess: another smear campaign against RMS, some guy asked a stupid philosophical question, eli answered to that question, and people think GNU supports slavery? People are really stupid.
we limit ourselves to solving a few of the problems
Pretty reasonable.
This is the JSON license all over again.
Now that’s some memories!
But honestly, “Free Software” as a principle with practicality is about run its course. It just does not adapt well to pretending to distribute equally when some people have preexisting condition and toolkit to be more equal than others.
We really need a new movement, something like basically “Ethical Software”, but also the pressure to use it.