It is better to keep unrelated issues separate. The alleged FSFE issue you mention has little to do with trusting the FSF to accurately evaluate a free software stack.

If anything, slightly grumpy old school guys (again, alleged) are much better at rejecting corporate influence than the new people whose politics are literally bankrolled by corporations.

> [again, alleged] slightly grumpy old school

I'm not associated with FSF specifically, but as a card-carrying grumpy old-schooler, I object to your vaguely-defamatory characterization of them[0] as "slightly" and "alleged".

Edit: 0: RMS et al, that is, not the business linux people.

That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of non-grumpy people who are good at rejecting corporate influence. I know of hundreds.

FSFE is a legally distinct entity from the FSF.

If the FSFE has problems, it's likely the FSF has them too, and vice versa. I don't want to get into this, really, but the cultural issues that allow these things to happen aren't one-offs; they're a known failure case of the specific, somewhat toxic brand of hacker culture that's been in Free Software circles since the early days.

(I think hacker culture in general is great, but, to use an analogy, there's a buggy implementation going 'round.)

By this, I mean: it's likely just a handful of people, max, being an immediate problem, but when the whole “looking past your friends' flaws” thing extends to when your friends are hurting other people, you're standing by while other people get hurt. Geek Social Fallacies[0] #2 and #3 don't combine well.

It's not just an FSFE problem. It's also not intrinsic to hacker culture in any way; it just tags along, causing problems.

[0]: http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

> Though that thing about the FSFE office in Germany yesterday.

What are you referring to?

Probably https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court.

FSFE's response is here https://fsfe.org/about/statement-20201220.html