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He was reinstated a few months after the shitstorm died down
Well shit. I thought guix was really cool for all the work they've been doing with bootstrapping an entire operating system from source but I don't want to be involved in that shit. This aspect of nerd culture should have died out during the ShitRedditSays era.
Guix fully supports RMS stepping away from key leadership roles in the FSF and has a strict code of conduct (the only political beliefs that project maintainers are allowed to share/claim publicly is for the proliferation of Free software). Don't worry, the Stallman cult is a very vocal minority.
I partly believe that he was reinstated because of the lack of focus in the advocacy for his exit. Don't get me wrong I adamantly supported rms stepping back from the FSF's board but the problem with the whole campaign is that it tried too hard to dig up everything that it could on rms.
One of the accusations against Stallman was transphobia based on a faulty line of reasoning (Stallman doesn't use they/them pronouns when referring to people regardless of gender in speech and writing but instead neopronouns pers/person. Nothing was implied that Stallman wouldn't use someone's preferred pronouns if asked/informed of it, not all non-binary folx use they/them). I only bring this up because it actually hurt the message in the long run when it's being paired with the very real complaints against Stallman's behavior.
Also if you're trying to relate to people in the libre software community, maybe try not to link to every proprietary social media site known for reactionary beliefs and echo chambers in the open letter (X dot com, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn). You lose all your credibility with that space (whom you actually need for the campaign to succeed) if you do that.
It's too late now, but that's my commentary on the campaign supporting Stallman's resignation.