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From https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...:

> "I have an announcement to make," Stallman said at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference. "I'm now on the Free Software Foundation board of directors once again... Some of you will be happy at this and some might be disappointed, but who knows. In any case, that's how it is. And I'm not planning to resign a second time."

I get that not everyone is perfectly well rounded but how do you fail at messaging this poorly? "...some might be disappointed, but who knows. In any case, that's how it is." Just a giant middle finger.

I'm sure plenty of Stallman-types will say everyone is not being generous enough or that cancel culture is going too far, but your job on the board of a foundation is implicitly a social one and if you can't not piss off 90% of the people around you then you are still bad at your job and unfit for it.