I don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble. They have achieved some cool technical stuff but that is no excuse for being a sad sack of a human.

You're literally doing what you describe. Throwing away a bunch of people at the first sign of an action you disagree with.

These people are not in any way the leaders of a group I belong to. I'm not part of GNU. So I'm not doing the same thing at all.

Sorry, I should have said "writing off" not "throwing away"

Me writing off a bunch of people that are mostly unrelated to me and a group of people expel their leader are vastly different things. There is(should be) an inherit trust from the leader to the group and the group to the leader. It's fine for the group to expel. What is not fine in my opinion is for the group to do this under external pressure.

This clearly show the group has no allegiance to the group itself. Only to winds of external pressures. It basically proved GNU is not really serious group. Just window dressing.

Apparently some other non serious groups include: governments, most major corporations.

That's exactly right. Governments enforce their power through force and major corporations through money. Not groups that deserve any respect or their stance be taking seriously.

This is a huge aside, but the most disturbing part of your response is the bit about governments. Governments are _supposed_ to be responsible to the people. Responding to external pressure is literally their job. They should be respected when they are responsive to the people. They only need to "enforce their power through force" when they are not responsive to the people.

Yes governments job is to respond to the people. I'm not sure what your point is. That inherently makes the government a group that can't be trusted. It's too fickle to be trusted.

> I don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

If they had done that, Stallman would have been gone decades ago.

Which would have been fine. It's not fine that this happens when external pressure due to the media is happening.

I don't think a problem escalating to mass media attention makes it less appropriate to deal with it.

It does when that mass media attention is based on easily verifiable lies.