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>I guess you never heard of Eben Moglen (who's a lawyer and does great work with advocacy and public speeches), or Bradley Kuhn from FSF Europe.

You say this as if to refute them, but that's exactly the parent's point. Nobody, or few, have heard of those people. It's all Stallman all the time.

It's not about them existing (nobody doubted that the FSF has somebody that's 2nd in command) -- it's about them getting the same spotlight.

>I'd say: GPLv3, Libreboot (fork of Coreboot).

Yeah, great successes both.

>Did you know who'd gonna take over Microsoft or Apple beforehand? No.

For one, we kind of do. Cook's name was referred to as the possible successor for years. And in Micosoft there are 3-6 senior executives that everybody expected to succeed Gates and then Ballmer, and one of them eventually did. Besides, those are for profit companies. With communities, organizations it should be even more transparent.