--Sometimes attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
LAST week I exchanged some messages with Stallman after few people online had claimed him to be less responsive than before.
"Lack of new appointments isn't the problem; a problem would arise if someone improper was (improperly) appointed."The relatively few people who signed a letter striving to remove Stallman from GNU have not given up. One of them occasionally shows up in our IRC channels. But 2.5 months down the line Stallman faces no real controversy. The dust has settled. Let's hope that the FSF will rise as champion of Software Freedom, seeing that Debian now (belatedly) tackles the problems with systemd (second post this weekend from DPL Sam Hartman).
Attempts to 'cancel' Stallman have not been thoroughly successful, only partially. And that's a big problem for the "cancellation lobby" (they wanted him to vanish) because among more and more people Stallman is now seen as a victim, a martyr. There's sympathy. Like we said months ago, considering who's in this lobby (and why), their whole effort may prove counter-productive. ⬆