Yes, this kind of behavior that you describe is the reason I personally dislike FSF and Richard Stallman (knowing and acknowledging that they've done more than

Yes, this kind of behavior that you describe is the reason I personally dislike FSF and Richard Stallman (knowing and acknowledging that they've done more than I can in probably 1000 years, but it doesn't mean they're above criticism). You might recall this recent thread: "GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 It cites http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/ http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/, which is a living proof of what you're saying. Two main developers of GnuTLS, that had written 10,600 commits out of 11,000 wanted to respectfully part ways with FSF. This is Stallman's reaction: > Nikos, when you volunteered to maintain GNUTLS, the GNU Project entrusted its development to you. Your contributions so far are appreciated. However, the project GNUTLS does not belong to you. > If you want to stop doing this job, you can. If you want to develop a fork of GNUTLS under another name, you can, since it is free software. > But you cannot take GNUTLS out of the GNU Project. You cannot designate a non-GNU program as a replacement for a GNU package. We will continue the development of GNUTLS. This really ought to boosts the morale of GNU contributers to know that even if they had contributed more than 96% of the codebase, they're still not trusted, and are deemed completely replaceable.