For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects.
One barely known person wrote an opinion about a person who's well-known in a specific group and who is respected and has appropriate power, and suddenly all the corporate media write about it. And it happened multiple times.
I think that the biggest problem is that people in the field don't give violent resistance each time it happens. Bad actors are everywhere, you have to fight them. People don't call these people what they are - corporate prostitutes, they don't even say "Je suis Stallman/Linus, etc." They see what happens and just cowardly accept it.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by lostjohnny on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:58AM
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> For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects.
It's the most plausible explanation.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by spookthesunset on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:28PM
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> For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects.
Adjust your tinfoil hat, please. Jesus christ.
Linus bent the knee to identitarian extremism. RMS did not and the FSF forced him out so they could bend the knee to identitarian extremism. If Linus had not bent the knee then the Linux Foundation would have forced him out.
Open Source and Free Software is being attacked on 2 fronts
Corporatism that is taking over and promoting "Open Source" Libraries and Licenses that are very restrictive to User Freedom
The Authoritarian / identitarian left that want to cancel any programmer, dev, or person in software development that does non conform to identitarian Political agenda
I came in to Free Software because it was a libertarian movement, now everyone is trying to drive out all the libertarians and it will kill the movement. Free Software and authoritarianism are not compatible