Bonum Certa Men Certa

Richard Stallman 'Only' Founded the FSF

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2025

Robert J. Hansen FAQ: Inappropriate pressure from RMS, as well as to protest FSF's decision to reappoint him to the Board.

The message shown above has a source and a URL (or message ID), but let's treat it in isolation. RMS is short for Richard M. Stallman.

What this message (dated last night) says is that the FSF declining to shun its own founder (who had committed no crimes) was such a big deal that some FAQ will be abandoned. To me it seems like an excuse because the rest of the message says: "I'm sick and tired, and tired and sick, of doing nothing as my country tears itself apart. I can't do much but I can explain things well. Maybe that will make GnuPG more useful to people who are deeply concerned about the trend of Western democracies towards surveillance capitalism and authoritarian rule."

So the person who RMS calls "wrecker" is the real source or the present source of frustration, or so it seems anyway. And for the record, the person wrongly linked to RMS was repeatedly shunned by RMS as "rapist" while Bill Gates was defending this rapist, having long hung out with him (that caused the Gates divorce; his wife dumped him over it).

For those of us not misled by Trump-connected media (Rupert Murdoch's newspapers were quick to throw RMS under the MIT bus, distracting from what Bill Gates had done in MIT) there's no reason to be upset at the FSF for keeping their founder in the Board. He's still scheduled to give a public talk this coming Monday:

Talk in Balzano, Italy Feb 24

Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society

Registration and program: fuss.bz.it
Place: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
When: Feb 24, 18:00–20:00
Language: English
Location: Aula Magna (Room D0.01)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Universitätsplatz 1, Piazza Università 1

Long live RMS. Censorship attempts shall backfire.

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