It’s not the problem about being dispensable, it’s just that regardless of the hard work Stallman did over the past decades, it’s becoming harder and harder to

It’s not the problem about being dispensable, it’s just that regardless of the hard work Stallman did over the past decades, it’s becoming harder and harder to justify his presence when many other contributors are losing faith the org because of him (such as the 33 people who signed a joint statement on the GNU project: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...). Stallman should at least have apologized over some of his awkward and potentially offending behavior over the years and do some self-retrospection (which is what Linus did, and as a result has much higher ground than Stallman, since even if he still might think the drama was overblown it still shows that he cares and emphasizes others to a certain degree.) But it seems that none of that is done even at a superficial level, so I expect FSF would significantly lose more trust among developers after Stallman’s revival. (Note that HN isn’t the only place to measure overall dev opinion...)