[acdha]

Also the FSF squandered its opportunity being RMS’ hobby / support organization and skipped a lot of important discussions, even before the skeevy behavior they’d been ignoring came to light. I used to donate in the 90s but … really feels like that was just flushing cash.

[infamouscow]

If my timelines are correct, the FSF ousted RMS before ChatGPT came out.

[supern0va]

They actually re-appointed him to the board in 2021, also before ChatGPT came out: https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-...

[acdha]

ChatGPT came into the picture long after the open source issues we’re talking about were apparent. AI companies are making it even worse but solid advocacy in the 2010s or 2000s would’ve been helpful.

[bgwalter]

The FSF also ignored the SaaS revolution. They put out the AGPL but did not really market it or convert FSF projects to it.