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This "crisis" is all so absurd. RMS is one of the greatest programmers of all time, if not the greatest. Fabrice Bellard is a script kiddie by comparison. How many of you use gcc? Emacs? You think he should be kicked out of the FSF? He founded the freaking FSF! All of you critics are a bunch of parasites. You either make room for the guy or start your own thing.

The software world would be such a startlingly different place without him, this may be difficult to grasp for younger people. Things like Github may not even exist without him. I guarantee you a Github would not defend a youtube-dl in that RMS-free reality. Git itself wouldn't exist, or you'd have to pay for it. Even Git's creation story, via Linux, becomes unlikely in absence of a free software movement.

He created an entire world of software. Given how things are going, with software eating the world (rapidly accelerating over the past year), he may very well be responsible for creating the world as we know it going forward.

Everybody worships Steve Jobs because he wanted money. And people put up with his abuse because he made them money too. But there's no more money to be made from RMS, and his defenders are thinning.

It's so upsetting to see an old man's life work ripped from his hands, for him to be treated as a nuisance (rather than lionized), but the world is not a good place.