I didn't mean to be condescending. I mean that there are people who really have a stake in a particular project: they spend time, for instance, contributing hours (valuable hours) attending conferences, onboarding new developers or other contributors, attempting to recruit people, and coding, debugging, supporting etc. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. These people, of whom I'm not one, count more than other opinions though, since their views on project leadership and direction are better informed and their contributions mean they face the consequences of their decisions. If the project, through its governance mechanisms, decides to change leadership, or direction, or to take back delegation of authority, then our first instinct should be to respect that decision. I am not paying attention to who writes what in this thread, it's is full of what has become the usual nonsense of jumping at shadows and conspiracies with the whiff of Gamergate. Even worse, it's not at all clear what the accusation of "dishonesty" refers to. They only thing in scope for this discussion should be what the project is doing and why. I hate if when such a good site has comment threads that appear to be Fox News after dark.
It is clear that there are senior people who have misgivings and it is pretty clear that RMS is not perfect, but so far the project appears to be managing it without much disruption. By the way, project contributors are more than just "developers", normally I am careful not to make that mistake, if I got that wrong, please accept my correction.
I also think that free software/open source works because it is pact between contributors. I think mere users are not important players in the economics of these projects.
It is clear that there are senior people who have misgivings and it is pretty clear that RMS is not perfect, but so far the project appears to be managing it without much disruption. By the way, project contributors are more than just "developers", normally I am careful not to make that mistake, if I got that wrong, please accept my correction.
I also think that free software/open source works because it is pact between contributors. I think mere users are not important players in the economics of these projects.
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