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Summary: Aged 30, Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT (where he continued to live until 1998 when he was still the editor of the FSF's Web site); the above helps show the dynamics of the organisation throughout the years
The crowd/audience Linus Torvalds panders to is paid by GAFAM to go attend and dominate (speak at) LF events. They're people whose employer forces them to use slop, it's inorganic.
"Before the announcement, former Microsoft employees publicly described staff being placed on performance improvement plans or offered “voluntary” exits."
