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Personal Views and Hypothesis About the Relationship Between the FSF and Richard Stallman (RMS) in LibrePlanet 2022

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Summary: Based on recent communications with Richard Stallman (RMS), he's still very much in charge of the FSF, but the FSF seems reluctant to use him as the FSF's public face as a result of shaming campaigns

GIVEN the observation that Richard Stallman won't be speaking at LibrePlanet this year (apparently the first such absence ever) we need to discuss what this may mean and why. The previous post left out my personal interetation of the situation, which I preferred to do as a video as it's more expressive and more difficult to take out of content (hence the "No Derivative" licence).



The short story is, it seems likely that monetary power of stakeholders contributes to alienation of the FSF's own founder or, as someone put it moments ago in IRC, "I would assume the FSF does not want another lp2021" (LibrePlanet last year, which was followed by an uproar).

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