Virtue signalling from Red Hat. IBM and Red Hat earn a lot of money in providing monitoring software to China, they care more about money than humans. They would not dare say anything about human rights or the lack thereof in china.

The Gnome Foundation has mostly people from Red Hat on their board.

There are a lot of people in the Free Software community that support the Free Software Foundation. I do understand that RMS is not an easy man to work with. He also has some views outside of software that not everybody agrees with, but it would be better if we can focus on the things we share. He did nothing wrong in the so-called controversial conversation, he was mostly misquoted with quote-mining.

The witchhunt is quite undesired and is hurting the free software world. That might even be the plan. De FSF and also RMS have a lot of enemies at big and wealthy companies. For Red Hat it would be easier if RMS and the FSF would disappear and they would become the “leaders” of the free software community.