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Is FSF still relevant nowadays?

• na85 5y ago
  Yes they are; I think their mission is more important now than ever. The same cannot be said for RMS however. His computing habits are so far detached from the reality of 99.9% of users that I feel he's become a caricature of himself, to say nothing of his problematic behavior that actively harms the image of the free software movement. FSF needs to grow up and bring on a figurehead who's more broadly palatable.
  • alexvoda 5y ago
    I think what some are arguing, is not that their mission isn't important. It's that the FSF, at this point, is neither capable of carrying that mission, nor relevant (beyond historic interest) to that mission. Their inability to function without RMS shows that. The SFC is today a much more relevant and capable organisation carrying the mission of software freedom.
• ergonaught 5y ago
  More relevant than ever. I doubt you can find someone with a better accuracy track record than RMS. Unfortunately, the mass public, even apparently the mass HN public, simply doesn’t care until it’s too late to matter. That isn’t due to a lack of “relevance”.
  • Beltalowda 5y ago
    If I dance in the nude on my roof every morning to stop climate change then my goals are very relevant, but my methods at actually doing something about it are not. You "blame" the public and HN for not caring. I blame the FSF for being a horribly ineffective organisation to actually spear their message, much less enact any political change.