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tw20190916jobdgon Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

Two things:

1. Stallman already has a lifetime of of examples of somewhat poor leadership within the GNU project, resulting in decisions that have compromised GNU and FSF's trajectory (compared to their potential), so once again, these are not new circumstances

2. How is Stallman doing FSF under threat here?

tw20190916jobdgon Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

If that's supposed to somehow make sense as a reply to what I wrote, you're going to have to explain it.

tw20190916jobdgon Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

How do you reconcile

(a) your implication that Stallman is flip-flopping due to public pressure

with

(b) Stallman's lifetime as a Diogenean polemic who has been shown to stand by his beliefs, no matter how unpopular?