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.
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
    9·
    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.