On Wars Against Founders
Just a hobby and "nothing professional like gnu"...
We have seen this almost everywhere: Mastodon, Nix(OS), Linux, GNU, Docker...
There's always this tendency, especially when seeking to attack some project or program or group... to attack the founder/s and/or head/s. It's just like in politics, but unlike politics, in this case we're talking about more than ideology; there's technical knowledge, relationships (e.g. trust) with other participants, and various aspects that are unique to sciences (or technology/ies).
People should be alarmed by efforts to tell people to quit their own project, which they themselves started and led for many decades. As we've only just mentioned, they did this to Torvalds. Sure, he's still there in the Linux Foundation (sheltered away in some corner and a distant or "deep-down" Web page), but like Dr. Stallman, who is technically still in the FSF, there's not even a mention of any of his talks this year. He's giving one in 4 days in Italy, just like he did a year ago (the FSF didn't mention that one either).
For interesting analogies also look at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The founder of the Web is no longer in control - not even remotely - and the Web rapidly becomes just one "family" of browsers running "apps" (or "webapps") instead of passing around Web pages. Then there's DRM, attestation, and all sorts of other stuff that reduces "the Web" into a mere "transport layer" geared towards serving proprietary "apps" which spy, restrict, and gaslight.
We need to insist that founders remain; those looking to oust them typically have a sinister agenda and sick mind. Improvement isn't the goal; power grab is the goal. Followed by revisionism. █