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by woofie11 1931 days ago
I think history is helpful here.

FSF lost RMS because of a spat where he was falsely accused by SJWs. I'm not going to get into history of all the upsides and downsides of RMS, or whether there were valid reasons for him to leave, but the point is that that the particular incident he left over was intentionally false reporting and misinformation. Everyone knew that. He was still gone.

The article is correct that FSF has had fewer people than Linux Foundation, but it has had much more impact. If FSF continues down that path, it's dead for impact.