sabik

I don't really know enough to have an opinion about RMS, but the fact that there are so many people having an opinion about this, who obviously do not know about the history or details of the free software movement, and are not part of it, troubles me.

Enough about the harassment stuff I mean. GNU is an operating system for computers / a collection of software. The GNU project being made up of its programmers. FSF is an org creates licenses, promotes them and owns copyrights to a set of software.

Except that FSF funds and shelters the GNU project. As in any big story, you have to follow the money

Question: Should people that have committed a crime, or are social pariah not be allowed to commit code to projects that are funded by entities you care about? Or have technical roles in such projects?

Or seen the other way - should organizations refrain from e.g. code hosting for public code that is partially written by such people?

If you do think this, does this extend to orgs? I.e. should Linux never have allowed SE Linux and other patches from the NSA, given their track record?

It’s about leadership roles.https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1177647111166291968?s=21 …

Well, my questions still apply, if the leadership role is strictly tech lead, not managing people. So, i'd still like you to answer them!