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I'm not sure where point 1 comes into play - membership on the board of the FSF is not a compensated role. He wasn't hired for anything.

Also, the FSF staff unionized in 2004 to protect themselves from RMS [1] [2], and the only concrete action the FSF has taken since Saturday [3] - presumably because of union pressure - is to elect a union-chosen member to the board. I believe that the staff of the FSF should also be allowed to find work, and if the staff is effectively saying (and has been saying for almost 20 years), we cannot do our jobs because of this guy, then we get into a much harder problem than can be addressed by the simple principle that everyone should be allowed to find work (a principle I agree with in the abstract).

[1] https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1374532930400227328

[2] https://twitter.com/NovalisDMT/status/1172573166956437505

[3] https://www.fsf.org/news/update-on-work-to-improve-governanc...




> membership on the board of the FSF is not a compensated role. He wasn't hired for anything.

That changes my view on the matter. Strike point 3.

I honestly don't care for the matter in this case. Both FSF and Red Hat ought to know what's best for them.




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