No, the “fuss” is because he has a well-documented history of being unpleasant to members of the open-source and MIT communities, both online and through sexual harassment in person and because he decided to take a public stand to defend sex trafficking of children and because he is incapable of apologizing for said. If you’d like to learn about that toxic behavior, perhaps you can start here: rms-open-letter.github.io although I’m sure it’s not hard to find examples elsewhere.
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