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Summary: It seems rather apparent that not many people have been conned by the hateful corporations, their corporate media, and corporate-led (or funded) NGOs that insisted FSF should reject its very own founder

The above-shown (charted) data can be generated using the publicly-accessible data, albeit this data is hosted by a monopoly and proprietary software trap. That's what anti-FSF petitioners chose as their platform!

A picture is worth a thousand words.

With Git installed fetch the repos in their current form, as follows: cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io.git && git clone https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io.git

Running the following code in python3 should then be possible (this may take a while!):

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# author: Kezi
# license: gplv3





import time
import os
import subprocess
from threading import Thread





from datetime import datetime





start_time = 1616522054+60*60*4
stop_time = int(time.time())





path_open = "/tmp/rms-open-letter.github.io" # https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io.git
path_support = "/tmp/rms-support-letter.github.io" # https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io.git





cwd = os.getcwd()





def count_open():
    lol=subprocess.check_output(['sh', '-c', f"cd {path_open}; cat index.md | grep -e \"^1.\" -e \"^- \" | wc -l"])
    return int(lol)





def count_support():
    lol=subprocess.check_output(['sh', '-c', f"cd {path_support}; ls _data/signed/ | wc -l"])
    return int(lol)





def checkout_open(date):
    try:
        subprocess.check_output(['sh', '-c', f"cd {path_open}; git checkout -f `git rev-list -n 1 --before=\"{date}\" main`"])
    except:
        pass





def checkout_support(date):
    try:
        subprocess.check_output(['sh', '-c', f"cd {path_support}; git checkout -f `git rev-list -n 1 --before=\"{date}\" master`"])
    except: 
        pass





def time_machine(timestamp):
    print("time machine", datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp), timestamp)





    date=datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
    thread1 = Thread(target = checkout_open, args = (date, ))
    thread1.start()
    thread2 = Thread(target = checkout_support, args = (date, ))
    thread2.start()





    thread1.join()
    thread2.join()





dates=[]
points_open=[]
points_support=[]





for i in range(start_time, stop_time, 60*5):
    time_machine(i)





    dates.append(datetime.fromtimestamp(i))
    points_open.append(count_open())
    points_support.append(count_support())




import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as md





plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2)
plt.xticks(rotation=25)
ax = plt.gca()
xfmt = md.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(xfmt)
plt.plot(dates, points_open, label="rms hate letter")





plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2)
plt.xticks(rotation=25)
ax = plt.gca()
xfmt = md.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(xfmt)
plt.plot(dates, points_support, label="rms support letter")





plt.legend()
plt.show()

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On Debian-like systems one may also need to apt-get install python3-matplotlib (for rendering the graph). On my laptop it takes 8 minutes to generate. As the list grows it'll take longer and longer to re-generate. Be sure to use python3 and also get the package for python3 (on systems that default to 2.x). ⬆

Update (hours later): almost 5,900 now.