This is bad leadership and I'm sad about all of it, agree with calls to resign. He can't change, the FSF board knows it, is sending a "sexism doesn't matter" message. He's been saying sexist shit & driving women away for decades. Stallman to be removed from board, staff, volunteer, and other leadership positions in the FOSS community, including the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. The Tor Project is joining calls for Richard M. We're with the Open Source Diversity Community, Outreachy & the Software Conservancy project in supporting this petition. We can't demand better of the internet if we don't demand better of our leaders, colleagues and ourselves.
Meanwhile, the following groups have also issued statements opposing Stallman's return to the FSF:
"When was RMS' most recent positive input to the GCC project? Even if it was recent and significant, that doesn't mean his toxic behaviour should be accepted." GCC's implementation language is now C++, which I believe RMS neither uses nor likes. "Prior to that there were commits in 1997, but significantly less than 1994 and earlier. "RMS is no longer a developer of GCC, the most recent commit I can find regards SCO in 2003," Sidwell wrote in a long email. Stallman is also the founder of the GNU Project and the original author of GCC. Nathan Sidwell said in a post directed to the committee that if it was unwilling to remove Stallman, then the panel should explain why it was not able to do so. The anti-Stallman letter had 2,812 individual signers (plus 48 companies and organizations).īut the question of Stallman's leadership has now also arisen in the GCC community:Ī long-time developer of GCC, the compiler created by the GNU Project and used in Linux distributions, has issued a call for the removal of Free Software Founder Richard Stallman from the GCC steering committee. The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers Sunday IT Wire counted up the number of signatories on two open letters, one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it.
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