Summary: The closest RMS will ever get to paying (tribute to) the bill
"He has shut down lots of Computer Science departments by dropping money on weak universities and colleges and then named a building at each," an associate of ours remarked.
Colleagues saw the suicide; the EPO's response wasn't to tackle the causes but to bolt down the windows (like factories in China installing controversial 'suicide nets')
"In the long term, the FSF needs to own its future office space, but then the deadly risk is that the property ownership becomes the end goal rather than software freedom."
Since virtually everyone in Europe is a user of software (almost nobody is a forest dweller like in countries near the equator), this impacts everybody
