Really? “A staggering lack of transparency”? How much transparency does RedHat, or IBM, or those behind this give to anyone other than their stockholders?

This is an attempt to marginalize the FSF, bring “Open Source” and its “GPL is cancer” philosophy to prominence, preparatory to a redivision of the commons that the FSF and the unique circumstances of the 80s and 90s permitted to be build with corporate aid.

The accusations advanced with sulfurous hysteria against Stallman do not pass the smell test. The hypocrisy of the journalists and corporate stooges behind this is simply boggling.

The current line is “we demand democracy in the FSF” — by which what is really meant is, we demand the right to infiltrate your organization and reverse its principled perspective. That’s not the way democracy works. The FSF is not a government, it is an organization with a viewpoint, and it is entitled to protect that viewpoint. Indeed, that is what has made it so singularly valuable.