Due process is for the court.
If you ousted yourself as an asshole in public, people not wanting to associate with you isn't legal, it's civilized society.
If you ousted yourself as an asshole in public, people not wanting to associate with you isn't legal, it's civilized society.
No. This is equivalent to a threat to strike. RMS without the GNU project maintainers is just a dude with a blog. And this approximates a vote of no confidence.
One strike and your out isn't even how we play baseball.
Maybe I'm too trusting. I have no evidence that kind of a convo happened. But the allegations are that RMS has been a missing stair for well over 20 years. I find it very hard to believe that someone who's been causing problems in a community for 20+ years has never had a friend pull them aside and ask them to change their behaviour.
Dr Richard Stallman is a person, too. It's no longer a secret that he likely has high-functioning autism. What is he supposed to be being now being disbarred from his own project that he founded in 1985? If people think he doesn't deserve to be credited as the founder of FSF, just fork, and be done with it. Instead what they're doing is trying to actively ostracise the very hand that fed them.
They don't _have_ to do any of this. They _should_, though, as society demands it.
Folks are free to disagree, but this is very much the right move.
They're free to walk away from Stallman and the movement he created, but they won't because they can't let go of the shiny. Instead, they convince themselves they deserve free software and GNU without the nasty man who built it.