[MaxBarraclough]

Time will tell how well the new guy, Knauth, does. [0]

The easy bit will be to not repeat Stallman's faults. Stallman would often come across as pedantic and combative in the Q&A session at the end of a talk, for instance, and would say absurd things such as that people who make proprietary software should be imprisoned.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/statement-from-fsfs-new-...

[srean]

I think his absurdities and hardlines were a necessity. Had he been more amenable to compromise I doubt FSF would have been able to push the agenda into that tiny sliver of mainstream that it managed to.

Keeping fingers crossed about Knauth.