THE latest nonsense from the so-called 'cancel mob' has landed in LXer (second from the top of the front page at the time of writing), so a rebuttal is probably worthwhile, even if it's almost an hour long. As we said a few days ago, "The Coup Against Free Software is Not Over" because the coup plotters try to pick up the pieces and resume the slanderous attacks. They try to divide people by misleading to them, outright lying to them (read "The Practice of Ritual Defamation"). Then they wonder why their employers are increasingly distrusted if not loathed.

"The way things stand, we can expect the likes of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and Bully de Blanc to keep on throwing punches..."Geoffrey Knauth, the FSF's president, is in good terms with Dr. Stallman and the GNU Project has just shown signs of health. The FSF's Board is bigger than (or as big as) it has been in years (since 2019) with Ian Kelling added and it must be very frustrating to the coup plotters, funded by the likes of Microsoft and IBM, that the FSF is even more pro-Stallman than it was before the attacks. Oh, how badly this whole thing backfired!

The way things stand, we can expect the likes of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and Bully de Blanc to keep on throwing punches (well, Bully has said nothing in about a month, except once; it's like she vanished in the defunct GNOME Foundation). The tantrums and hissy fits of monopolists with bipolar disorder. ⬆