This is kind of cool. I actually have very little feeling about their board members either way, but I'm glad that basically he, and the rest of the organization told the whole cancerculture movement to go to hell.
@storm One thing that pushing him out in 2019 showed me is that I really do not trust #FSF leaders other than Richard M. Stallman to firmly adhere to the intent of "the Four Freedoms":{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html} aside from his influence.
I think there is a need to develop other principled leaders in both FSF / #GNU and in #OSI, because eventually RMS will pass away.
@simsa03 @sullybiker The article implies that FSF was pretty meaningless without the GNU Project, which continued to be led by RMS.
But a reasonable observer might conclude that further investigation after his resignation found that some of the claims made against Stallman were not supported by evidence, since most such organizations’ board members are invited, not self-nominated.
Either that, or the FSF leadership indeed lacks principles, and did it because Stallman as figurehead likely brings in more money.
I can’t think of another explanation that passes the reasonableness test.
>Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for Stallman to be removed again and for the FSF's entire board to resign. Letter signers include Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation executive director and former Debian Project Leader; Deb Nicholson, general manager of the Open Source Initiative; Matthew Garrett, a former member of the FSF board of directors; seven of the eight members of the X.org Foundation board of directors; Elana Hashman of the Debian Technical Committee, Open Source Initiative, and Kubernetes project; Molly de Blanc of the Debian Project and GNOME Foundation; and more than 300 others. That number has been rising quickly today: the open letter contains instructions for signing it.
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