re: RMS/FSF

Regarding The Stallman Report, which I tried to discuss in a single toot but couldn't: 

I owe my career and life as I know it to a chance reading of the GPL while tending an industrial photo copier on third shift. 

Professionally: I have co-written a book about Linux, contributed to FOSS  projects, helped build an OSPO at a major open source company, and worked for a FOSS foundation.  If you're a GNOME user, you've possibly encountered docs I wrote. If you're a Puppet user, you've definitely encountered docs I wrote, or read docs that were part of the three-fold expansion of total Puppet documentation I led, or used software built by teams I led there. 

Socially: I've spoken out against people who have denigrated the copyleft wing of the FOSS community and defended RMS (narrowly) for his specific views about copyleft.  

But I find the Stallman Report nauseating, and it has lead me to believe the FSF itself has lost legitimacy. 

I don't really participate or contribute much these days, so I've got nothing useful to say about what's next or what anyone should do. I have no idea if there's a way to isolate or shun the FSF without endangering the parts of the free software commons it governs, but I hope FOSS leaders can figure that out, somehow. 

I'm so appalled by what I read in that report that I'm reeling.