Regardless of how abhorrent you might think RMS' actual views are, that letter really unfairly characterizes a lot of things they're claiming RMS said. I appreciate them throughly citing sources for their claims, so its easy to compare what the letter accuses him of saying and what the literal words he used are. Individual interpretation of the amount of twisting they do is left up to the reader.

That open letter against RMS is so cringe. The people who are attempting to purge him sound like intolerant, wanna-be dictators.

When studying history, I sometimes wonder - how certain things could have happened? Some of these seem ridiculous or unbelievable when you look back.

Now I know how it happens. Some people do something strange, then their number increases, they are very vocal, they're 100% sure what they do is right, they're very emotional about it, and at a certain point it seems like they are the majority. They do certain things like revolutions, usually with a bad result, and you can't do anything, you can just watch it powerlessly and hope it doesn't end badly this time.