The Wiki article[1] on ESR has some bits. Including:

> Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

> Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist.

> Gays experimented with unfettered promiscuity in the 1970s and got AIDS as a consequence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beli...

I think the goal here is to prevent a toxic atmosphere in Open Source communities. The problem is that to enforce this it may remove freedoms that some Open Source advocates feel is important. Thus we have heated conversations between those for and against the Personal Non Grata.

I could be wrong on the whole thing. I'm not well versed in what is going on but based on what I see this is my understanding.

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists...

ESR is right, and his banning, ironically, proves his point. To hell with the sanctimonious bastards in the OSI who did this.

ESR is a person, Eric S Raymond. He wrote "the cathedral and the bazaar", maintains "the jargon file", and is generally involved in the open-source community. You could consider him an "influencer" like Stallman, although to a lesser extent. He also holds some unpopular right-wing views, like gun rights, freedom of speech, and "meritocracy".

He had this to say on the topic of women's advocacy groups.

>The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

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He's a bit of a crank, and not very popular these days.

It looks like the the email was deriding a license that let projects decide certain companies were "unethical", and prevent those companies from using the "open source" code. Right now that list includes Amazon "for collaborating with ICE" and BP for "contributing to climate change".