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My personal feeling from the first RMS thread, is this site is full of people who want to defend RMS and argue against "cancel culture". They get upset when they find out the majority of the people who actually do the work in GNU, and have to work with RMS, want rid of him.

There's a couple of old fashioned misogynists who feel very threatened by the idea of RMS finally facing consequences for his behaviour, and they are pulling out all the stops to suppress criticism of RMS and the FSF.

Various justifications will be applied -- it's a "divisive topic" or its "political" -- but it's just different types of denial.

It just highlights why women have a problem in tech.

I think some people on all sides are tired of reading about Stallman.