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The Free software foundation needs its Martin Luther and Reformation. Stallman has quite literally become the pope of the Free software foundation and we need to remember that like with the Protestant Reformation, the individual has their own, unmediated relationship with free software.

There are other apt analogies between the Protestant Reformation and the Free software foundation but I will leave discovering that as an exercise to the reader.

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We’re already there. For example, look at the spectrum of licenses free software can fall under.

Most of each represent a return to the PD and Shareware days, only rebraded to modern times.

Well, based on your analogy, people unsatisfied with Stallman, should leave the FSF and found their own "church" instead of trying to destroy his image and legacy, or at least to take FSF by force. (I don't have an opinion about Stallman. My comment is just about your analogy).

This has happened already, look at Open Source Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy and others.

well looks like none is doing what FSF does or then what's the point to keep attacking Stallmann? Let the old man alone, doing his own little thing alone, right? Looks like it's more about power than open source and looks like you didn't understand the difference between open source and free software: "The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement."[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

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