to be clear, stallman has repeatedly shown that he's not a capable steward of software projects (everything that happened to hurd and gcc), and even less capable as a leader of an organization
even before you get into his toenail eating: he is very bad at his job
if free software is to mean more than a cult of personality, he should be replaced at the fsf, no question
i do not think he is capable or responsible enough to perform the job he gave himself
"what's his job" promoting free software and providing a real alternative to proprietary systems
"how's that working out" gcc kept getting forked to stop him sabotaging the project, eventually forcing clang to exist.
"oh" immediately after he stepped down, emacs replaced the default config with something useful over his crufty defaults
"i guess" other people have successfully written microkernels several times over, their secret was not reporting to rms. he is the reason hurd does not work
even before you open up the book labelled "the guy has really skeevy opinions and doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut"
or the large overflowing binder of "people who have left free software because of his behaviour"
there's a quick summary note that says "other free software organizations have broken ties with the fsf because of him"
for someone who kicked up a fuss over sudo it is kinda tragic they're clawing onto power over others despite the consequences
i muted this thread but if your response to "he is not good at the job he gave himself, and has isolated the fsf from the free software community at large" is a long unhinged post about how linus torvalds is the true evil for not using the AGPL, do me a favor and replace your carbon monoxide detector
i care about free software because i care about people, and putting someone in a position of trust who has repeatedly abused that trust, is anathema to the whole fucking point
What literally boils my blood is, LLVM team sent an e-mail to RMS stating that "We're ready to assign all copyright and stewardship of the project to GCC/FSF", and he allegedly didn't see the e-mail.
It's in GCC mailing list archives somewhere. I saw it with my eyes.
argh.
@tef Instead what do we get from RMS staying on & cultivating that cult of personality?
A crowd who shouts "How dare you fork GIMP!?" (to give an example) when the whole point is essentially the right to fork!
@tef fucking *what*.
Idk whi that is but please do not eat anything that comes off a human except breastmilk.
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