October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.
  • The Nexus of Privacy
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    2 months ago

    Yeah it’s a very thorough report and makes it very clear just how little excuse there is for FSF and Stallman’s other defenders to continue to enable and support his behavior. Agreed that he himself isn’t particularly relevant, but his supporters are still very influential in some areas of the open source community.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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      2 months ago

      Agreed that he himself isn’t particularly relevant, but his supporters are still very influential in some areas of the open source community.

      hilariously you can see some of the reflexive defense of him over in the FOSS thread of this article. way too many people feel obliged to run defense for this guy and it’s just cringeworthy to watch

      • The Nexus of Privacy
        5·
        2 months ago

        Yeah. Well, discussions about stuff like this are good at revealing people to block and ban.