> was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot.
RMS was and still is the GNU project leader.
> It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal.
He gives talks all around the world, trying to warn people about proprietary software and getting them involved in Free Software.
> GNU is internally managed on a private mailing list.
But this little kerfluffle was on a public mailing list, as was requested by the various maintainers who wanted to oust RMS. It was open for anyone to follow along on the gnu-misc-discuss list from 2019-10 and forward. The discussion doesn't really support your "it has been a long time coming" assertion.
> For a long time, key GNU projects have either effectively quit GNU
If you mean Gnome, it still has a lot of those who support GNU, or aren't even aware Gnome is not GNU. There are enough of them the Gnome leadership only raises issues when it allows them to raise their own profile and public visibility, like what happened during the MIT debacle.
> The only change is that now they are doing it in public.
Thankfully, so everyone can read for themselves how claims that what is going on in GNU is "not good" is very subjective and more of a "not how I personally would like it to be".
RMS was and still is the GNU project leader.
> It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal.
He gives talks all around the world, trying to warn people about proprietary software and getting them involved in Free Software.
> GNU is internally managed on a private mailing list.
But this little kerfluffle was on a public mailing list, as was requested by the various maintainers who wanted to oust RMS. It was open for anyone to follow along on the gnu-misc-discuss list from 2019-10 and forward. The discussion doesn't really support your "it has been a long time coming" assertion.
> For a long time, key GNU projects have either effectively quit GNU
If you mean Gnome, it still has a lot of those who support GNU, or aren't even aware Gnome is not GNU. There are enough of them the Gnome leadership only raises issues when it allows them to raise their own profile and public visibility, like what happened during the MIT debacle.
> The only change is that now they are doing it in public.
Thankfully, so everyone can read for themselves how claims that what is going on in GNU is "not good" is very subjective and more of a "not how I personally would like it to be".
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-10/...