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Comment by craigsmansion

> Here's the lead developer of the HURD

Bushnell hasn't been working on HURD for a long time. He joined a religious order and works for google.

> Here's someone who spent about two decades of his life at the FSF

Kuhn is now the president of a competing organisation to the FSF that doesn't mind promoting Facebook or Google for their outreach.

> Here's a whole bunch of GNU project maintainers

Guix has been in disagreement with rms since he didn't want to adopt a CoC for GNU because it was "too punitive" in intent, and suggested using GNU's Kind Communications Guidelines instead.

> Here's a couple of high-profile GCC contributors

Nathan Sidwell is a Facebook engineer who instigated the removal of rms from the gcc steering committee. After the committee did so for technical reasons, he accused them of not being punitive enough towards rms and proceeded to tally various personal suspicions against rms.

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235267.html

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