Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Posted Sep 17, 2019 8:06 UTC (Tue) by tchernobog (guest, #73595)
In reply to: Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF by cevin666
Parent article: Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Thanks, this is the right approach. I love Richard Stallman's way to speak about Free Software, and he has been pivotal in changing how we understand software altogether. I still think we are losing a battle in letting open source be rendered equal to free software, and in abandoning the concept of copyleft more and more. I have nothing but respect for RMS there.

I also share several of his overall political views.

However, he is the spokeperson of a non-profit organization, and a public figure. You cannot represent the FSF as president and behave like he did now and in the past. Else you are hurting the movement. And there is no excuse for that. You know people will use you as a straw man to discount everything done by the FSF If you don't step down.

So I applaud the choice of resigning.

Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Posted Sep 17, 2019 8:23 UTC (Tue) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164) [Link]

> You cannot represent the FSF as president and behave like he did now and in the past.

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean exactly with "behave like he did now and in the past"? Not knowing the details of RMS' life or the details of this story, I don't know what you're referring to. From what I have read (https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/d5axzu/w...), which may or may not misrepresent the facts, I got the impression he has done nothing wrong whatsoever.