Richard Stallman has been re-elected to a leadership position at the Free Software Foundation.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, TOR Project, Mozilla, and various other projects/foundations has called for the resignation of Richard Stallman and the entire board.
A GitHub open-letter has been created to collect signatures:
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
There has been a huge divide on this election.
A support letter has also been generated.
https://rms-support-letter.github.io/Removing RMS will hurt FSF’s image and will deal a significant blow to the momentum of the free software movement. We urge you to consider your actions carefully, as what you will decide will have a serious impact on the future of the software industry.
To the ambush mob who is ganging up on Richard Stallman over reasonable arguments in debate and various opinions and beliefs voiced over decades as a public figure:
You have no part in choosing the leadership of any communities. Especially not via another mob attack which does not remotely resemble a fairly conducted debate as exemplified by better people such as Richard Stallman.
Both sides has been accusing each other of targeted harassment.
