The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised $422,000 (Another $22k in the Two Weeks After Campaign Ended), Proving That Truth and Justice Tend to Find a Way
10,000+ US dollars a week even without campaigning for funds
OUR modest observations about haters of the FSF - because this is what they are (the ad hominem way though) - have long been the same; it's quite consistent; many of them suffer envy (for failing to accomplish anything of importance), many of them are really gross, and over time all of them end up cancelling themselves instead of those whom they seek to demonise and deplatform. We've lost count of those impacted, but Bully de Blanc, Hamasman, Sharp, Reda, Schultz, McGovern and Garrett are among them. Nicholson has managed to adapt to change and put the fingers in many pies: Linux Foundation/OIN, FSF, SFC, OSI, now Python (but there is strong pushback already). The common pattern is, they self-nuke when they try to nuke real proponents of true software freedom. Typically we just never hear of them anymore. Even Debian Project Leaders (DPLs) who notoriously attacked Daniel Pocock are barely visible anymore. Contrariwise, Pocock is still active, he gives public talks, as does Richard Stallman, who gave at least 5 public talks this month (different topics, even different languages).
So what is it that compels hypocrites to keep doing this? Like perverts calling others "perverts" (stones in glass houses)? Can they not identify the pattern? You attack Linus Torvalds, you end up not doing any Linux development. You attack Richard Stallman, then Hare dies (DeVault has not blogged about it since January 24, 2023).
Rational people would figure out there's a pattern here; there's much to be gained by creating things, not by attacking people who created many things (like Torvalds created Linux and Git, Stallman created GNU, FSF, GPL and more).
Society is typically made or composed of builders and vandals who attempt to break everything down. As long as the efforts of the builders outpace the latter's, society can advance. It's still time-wasting, but wasteful opportunists aren't a new problem.
The FSF can hopefully maintain a good core of supporters and protect the GPL (copyleft) from Microsoft.