The sad part is that it took RMS making excuses for sex trafficking for him to get kicked out. He's been a hindrance to the free software movement for many years now, in technical/licensing/endorsement/general image matters.
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Call me when the FSF isn't actively hurting the cause for hardware freedon by having bass-ackwards certification rules that result in designs where non-free parts are made invisible and untouchable and unfreeable.
Call me when Stallman's deep-seated fears of proprietary GCC plugins have prevented any kind of modern integration features with IDEs for decades, because he refuses to let the compiler export any kind of AST representation that can be used for high-level integration.
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Call me when they stop alienating everyone by endlessly whining about calling systems "GNU/Linux" (and actively writing it into their requirements for certifications) when the average Linux system has more Chromium code than GNU code these days.
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Seriously, we talk about proprietary dinosaurs. The FSF is the dinosaur of the freedom movement, and we need to stop paying attention to them.
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You can't integrate GCC with *free software IDEs* because Stallman is too scared that someone writing proprietary software might use the same interface. https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/ … What ended up happening is other people wrote a compiler with no such restrictions instead (clang).
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Yup exactly. When I was studying CS I looked into GCC and was amazed to find that extension/integration was made almost impossible for that very reason. I threw the towel. This is why LLVM got an edge over GCC.
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