Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Stallman never has been, but one can't say that about his fellow board members on the FSF. Mako Hill is an untenured assistant professor in an academic field rife with gender-centric politics and postmodernism, and it's not difficult to imagine him being pressured. Hal Abelson was tasked by MIT in producing its whitewash of its involvement in Aaron Swartz' persecution to suicide, and no doubt could be counted to carry the cowardly institutional line into the FSF board as well. As to the others, generally from what I know of them they have decently promoted Stallman's vision, but one must also qualify this that their resistance to the considerable pressure brought on Stallman was not personally tested -- until now.

They failed the test.

And this capitulation will linger as a significant aspect of the legacy of each and every one of them who do not come forward to protest the FSF board majority's actions.

After all, even a significant figure like Eben Moglen eventually adapted to the vast corporate hostility to the larger Free Software vision.

I said that RMS's resigning was cowardice, not that RMS is a coward.