>>43189
>if no gatekeepers prevents forming pressure groups within, then one will form and claim the freedom to themselves and take

Sadly, it is not only some group who tries to take control. Most of coders in community are on "same side", i.e. with full support of all this LGBTBLMWTF thing. They may be smart and non-conflict people personally, but groupthink still exist.

Radicals are viewed by them as "our guys, just too radical, but supporting our good cause". With that logic, it is very hard to oppose these invasive CoCs, wording witchhunts, censorship etc, from inside the community. Who would oppose idea of diversity, if diversity is a piety of modern age? And who would oppose pro-diversity statements, even if they are clearly divisive? Society, especially western, are overly morally-conformist, and going against radical "diversity" and "inclusion" also includes being some kind of outcast.

This is one reason why FSF and RMS especially vulnerable - they also are leftists, and they can't just say "oh fuck off we don't care". Although some brave people exist, like Leah Rowe (that trans who hated FSF some time ago) - s(he) supported Stallman, even being completely "wrong" person for that: https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html

>>43199
>Speaking of which. What's the story behind that large Russian support?

Russian-speaking (not only Russian, but from all post-USSR) open source community mostly consisted from old-style GNU lovers (and, surprisingly, BSD too), and rarely intersect with local SJW community (it exists). RMS/FSF/GNU look positively for both "patriotic" and pro-Western people, from commies to liberals and libertarians. So, few news on popular OSS community sites (opennet.ru, linux.org.ru etc) amassed large amount of concerned viewers, who created and spread support letter.