[Article 1. 5 years]
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
I already covered the first Debian mass resignation circular in June. The mass resignations continued. Another eight people left shortly after my last blog, and five more were removed from the Debian keychain today.
That’s a total of thirty Debian developers who abandoned or removed in about 3 months. This is an unprecedented exodus from the Debian community.
It is only natural that these resignations occurred while Debian’s budget was being used to pay lawyers to smear volunteers and censor Debian websites.
It’s a natural coincidence that volunteers are now examining emails from the early days of Ubuntu, between 2004 and 2010, to the link between the Ubuntu strain and Frans Pop’s suicide in 2010.
The UK’s Occupational Homicide Act came into force in 2008, shortly before Frans Pop’s suicide.
Out of respect for Frans Pop, Lucy Wayland and their families, I believe that Debian will avoid spending on legal action at WIPO and will use the money to seek recommendations from experts in office skills and culture.
There’s a lot of shame in suicide and addictions. If the organization takes any responsibility, it will be an embarrassment to the families of Pop and Wayland.
Photos of Frans Pop and Sven Luther have been posted in FOSDEM’s Debian Dev Room. There, in the same room.
In 2017, the flexible software network chose me as their representative. Serving the families of Pop, Wayland, and others sick is just as vital as caring for my clients. Ubuntu and Google have never been customers.
Here we can see Neil McGovern, Steve McIntyre and me, facing each other, at FOSDEM 2007. Those were happier times, before Google’s money caused the total crash in Debian. We are almost exactly in the same position as Frans Pop in the photo above, room AW1. . 125 at ULB, Brussels.
Here are all the recent resignations, maximum in June 2022:
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