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FSF Appoints A New Executive Director

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the congratuations-all-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Free Software Foundation (which has a new website, BTW) has appointed a new Executive Director. The former executive director, Bradley M. Kuhn, is going to work for the new Software Freedom Law Center as its Chief Technology Officer." Peter T. Brown, who is replacing Kuhn, is currently the director of the FSF's GPL Compliance Lab.

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  1. Anti-slash's victory against Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    For public distribution (13 Feb 2005):

    Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.

    In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.

    The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=115 70041
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    I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

    Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

    Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

    Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

    During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

    At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

    michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

    There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

    michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

    This can be confirmed by visiting http://slashdot.org/authors.pl. Michael is not listed.

    Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying
    1. Re:Anti-slash's victory against Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      1 down, 7 to go

  2. frist post!@ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol!!!

  3. when will they stop taking money from criminals? by plinius · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like Raytheon, which is profiting from the Iraq war and has polluted silicon valley

    Like IBM which helped the Nazis kill Jews and gypsies

    Like so many other CORPORATE CRIMINALS.

  4. Re:The FSF has no conscience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The best gifts are given anonymously.

  5. I POOP on New Executive Directors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    poop

  6. They responded to me... by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...by prodding me with a shock-stick and saying Move along. I didn't know if it was Stallman or Brown or some other guy--he did look bald and have this big gas-mask-thing on...

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  7. Moderators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please vote this down. There is absolutely nothing interesting about these people's sycophantic obsession with the slashdot editors.

    1. Re:Moderators by hunterx11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sycophantic? I don't think you're using that word right. Truly inconceivable.

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  8. congraTUATIONS? by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are those like those acTUATIONS that you inhale from an asthma pump? (FWIW I suffered from asthma once; it simply "faded" away.) I gess we all miss a letter once evey few miutes.

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  9. mod Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    here, please do though, I have to Since we made the long term survival hand...don't shaal we? OK! into a sling unless

  10. Re:ANTI-SLASH = SAD AND PATHETIC.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, it was user e-mails to Rob. Ask him sometime.