| ▲ | pabs3 a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The FSF has moved address at least once, and more recently, now closed their offices entirely. I wonder if the new owners of their old addresses will or did get confused by copy-of-GPL requests. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | vinceguidry a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Postman probably just redirects, with a business or institution it's easy to just have the Post Office direct all mail addressed to "Free Software Foundation" to the current address. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mattl a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I used to work at the FSF and one of my jobs was replying to these letters. They would be so infrequent by 2008 that I think I handled less than 10 in my time there. I sent way more copies of books to prisoners who requested them, gave more tours of the office, etc. I also did some other stuff when I worked there but if you were to look at the FSF website today you might think I’m still there as pages often have the name of the person who created the page listed as the author still. The FSF has moved a few times. * 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge. * 59 Temple Place, Boston * 51 Franklin St, Boston * 31 Milk Street, Boston The first address wasn’t around for too long, but does still exist. It’s an office building above a bank in Central Square, Cambridge right above the Red Line stop. The second address was around for a long, long time. A few years ago, the building was demolished and turned into a hotel. I don’t know if 59 Temple Place is still a valid address or not. For this one, I found many of most frequent places and filed bugs to get it updated. Greg K-H helped me update the kernel and many of the issues I opened got resolved with other projects. Worth noting too that the FSF had two different offices in the same building but mail would go to the building. Mail did forward from here to the next address for a while, but I’m not sure if it’ll forward again to the latest address. 51 Franklin St is just around the corner from 59 Temple Place. When they moved here, many staff were able to walk their stuff over to the new office. This one finally closed last year. I worked here my entire time at the FSF. The final one is a PO Box but also around the corner from 51 Franklin St. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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