Bad Software

RMS Backstabbers

Back in 2021, Richard Stallman announced his return to the Free Software Foundation after some Chinese-Ethiopian (what a combo) wrote a really angry post criticizing his pretty reasonable take on the whole Epstein thing that ended up having him removed from the project.

Since his return became public, multiple entities have come together to write a letter to the FSF containing purposefully misleading accusations. This letter was just corporate shills with the goal of destroying FSF. The letter demands for the whole board of FSF to resign and people are signing it. They think that GPL is evil and licenses like MIT (which enable global corpos to proprietarize everything they want) is actually good.

This letter pulls regular statements from Richard Stallman out of context, and frames them as being sexually abusive, somethingphobic, somethingist, etc…

Here is a list of companies that have signed this letter. Do not use their products.

• 3NSoft
• Aaru Data Preservation Suite
• Calyx Institute
• Ceccun
• CH Open
• CommitChange
• Creative Commons
• Cusy
• DataMade
• Data + Feminism Lab, MIT
• Dot HQ
• Echap
• Exherbo Linux
• Exodus Privacy
• Fivnex
• Freedom of the Press Foundation
• The FreeDOS Project
• Globenet
• GlobaLeaks
• GNOME Foundation
• GNU Radio
• GNU Mailman
• Great Scott Gadgets
• Innatical
• Kludge Cyber Systems
• The HardenedBSD Foundation / The HardenedBSD Project
• Metaform
• MidnightBSD Project
• MousePaw Media
• Mozilla
• OBS Project
• Open Life Science
• Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
• Open Source Collective
• Open Source Diversity
• Organization for Ethical Source
• Outreachy
• Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
• RACTF
• Radial Source
• Riseup Networks
• Sanctuary Computer
• SUSE
• SumoStack
• TEN7
• Tor Project
• Velvetyne – Libre and Open Source Foundry
• wiquaya.org
• X.org Foundation