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Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and grow from recent events

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On 3/31/21 1:20 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 08:13:59PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
>> On 3/30/21 5:28 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
>>> We urge Richard Stallman and the remaining members of the board which
>>> reinstated him, to consider their positions.
>> Can you elaborate on the intended meaning here? Is "position" their position
>> to reinstate RMS, or their position as a member of the board?
>>
>> Is this intentionally "consider" as opposed to "reconsider"? If so, is that
>> intended to be a weaker form of reconsider?
> 
> No, and no. "To consider one's position" in business and politics is a
> (probably rather English) euphemism; being invited to consider your
> position is a clear indication that you ought to be resigning over some
> matter.

Thanks for clarifying. I'm an en-US speaker and I was not familiar with 
that (possibly en-GB) euphemism.

-- 
Richard

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Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and grow  from recent events Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 00:40 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 01:00 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@minaslivre.org> - 2021-03-31 02:20 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 02:40 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 03:20 +0200
    Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 08:30 +0200
      Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 19:30 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and grow from recent events Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2021-03-31 08:50 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Zlatan Todoric <zlatan@riseup.net> - 2021-03-31 09:00 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Paride Legovini <paride@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 10:40 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2021-03-31 10:50 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Micha Lenk <micha@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 11:20 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> - 2021-03-31 12:00 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2021-03-31 19:30 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 19:30 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> - 2021-03-31 19:30 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2021-03-31 21:00 +0200
  Re: Amendment to RMS/FSF GR: Option 4, assert the need to learn and  grow from recent events Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2021-04-01 18:40 +0200

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