One thing to think about, looking at the linked thread, the 2nd, 7th, 9th and 11th top code contributors to GCC have all already replied to say they want rid of

One thing to think about, looking at the linked thread, the 2nd, 7th, 9th and 11th top code contributors to GCC have all already replied to say they want rid of RMS -- the only RMS supporters in that thread are people who have never contributed to GCC. This isn't a new problem, with only a small number of issues, people in the community have found RMS to be unhelpful and blocking for over 20 years -- I myself used to commit to GCC (not a lot, maybe 60 commits). I left to help with early clang partially because of irriation with how RMS's direction was ruining GCC. People in GCC haven't loved having him around for the last 20 years, they tolerated him as it was considered too much work to get rid of him.