He is out of touch, has been for years. This latest glibc drama is just another example of how he's holding back the communities he started decades ago (and trying to assert long-expired leadership rights). He's also a huge part of the reason why GCC stagnated and LLVM happened.
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A lone maintainer applied a change without consensus. What would you have him do in response?
Stallman isn't saying "revert the change until we reach consensus". He's saying "I don't give a flying fuck about consensus, I make the final decisions here and the joke stays."
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Yet he didn't use the power he has to revert it himself ... Last sentence of your 2nd nugget reads "If you would like me to change it, it is up to you to convince me to change my decision." He's also not claiming to make *all* the final decisions ...
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The point is that if the community is consensus-based he doesn't *get* to make overriding decisions, and yet he is doing so. Whether he actually reverts it himself is irrelevant; merely stating that it's his decision already stifles debate and takes over the consensus process.
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