No, the Free Software Foundation has decided that the best person to be the public face of the movement, the best person to represent Free Software, is a walking media shitstorm known to creep on women and actively drive them away from participating with his behavior[0], who seems to spend an awful lot of words defending pedophiles on his blog, and who eats his toenails on camera.
That's who they think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement.
Truth always lies in the middle. I suggest to read this article by Hannah Wolfman-Jones with a response from civil-rights expert Nadine Strossen about the whole ordeal and make up your mind [0]. I am indifferent but I think everyone should read the two sides of the story
Free software wouldn't even exist as a movement if it weren't for Stallman. Linux and *BSD wouldn't exist. Emacs and gcc wouldn't exist. Stallman is the FSF and they're irrelevant without him.
stallmans the founder and face of the free software movement plus most people like him despite the numerous hitpieces and toxic comments such as your own
na85|3 years ago
That's who they think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055792
533474|3 years ago
[0] https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
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