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The FSF is foremost about community, and only incidentally about software. He is, to put it absurdly nicely, not the sort of people person who should be leading such an organization.


> The FSF is foremost about community, and only incidentally about software

I fear that this has become true, but the only reason anybody gives a damn about the FSF and the only reason this is even newsworthy is because of the software and licenses produced by the FSF.

If you take the software away the FSF is nothing, so I don't understand how you can claim it's primarily a community.


Why do those licenses matter? Because of the community they created. Nobody would care about the GPL if it was only used for the FSF’s software.


> Because of the community they created

Why does the community they created matter? Because they produce more software.


Right, the foundation produces community, and the community produces software. RMS’s role is almost entirely about leading that community, not producing that software.




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