Richard Stallman recently announced on a video that he's back. He's back at the Free Software Foundation and is reinstated as a board member. And the hater...
I think it should not be controversial that rms is not the person to lead the free software movement right now. While some of the criticisms against him are mischaracterizations and a few lies, he does not foster the type of welcoming environment that this movement needs in order to succeed.
Even if you think rms has no obligation to change his behavior around women, you have to admit he is pretty disconnected from the way most people interact with software. Like it or not, the free software movement has to recruit from ‘normies’ who will not learn a hundred emacs macros or wget every webpage and email it to themselves.
Pretty cringe, hysterical, and whiny. “Cancel culture” isn’t a thing.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xe16MdERJxw
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=szybEhqUmVI
Minorities aren’t coming for your free software. It’s Capitalism. Always has been.
I think it should not be controversial that rms is not the person to lead the free software movement right now. While some of the criticisms against him are mischaracterizations and a few lies, he does not foster the type of welcoming environment that this movement needs in order to succeed.
Even if you think rms has no obligation to change his behavior around women, you have to admit he is pretty disconnected from the way most people interact with software. Like it or not, the free software movement has to recruit from ‘normies’ who will not learn a hundred emacs macros or wget every webpage and email it to themselves.