It's sometimes incredible how far-sighted some of his talk is. Unfortunately most people only ever learn after the fact.

Yes, and the trend towards codes of conduct and ethical licenses are producing projects ripe for this sort of hijacking.

And ESR warned us of that. Although I can understand that signal getting lost in the noise that is ESR's writing, unfortunately.

Both ESR and RMS have warned against such "ethical" licenses.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

Bruce Perens has as well: https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licens...

I had to look that up. ESR is Eric Steven Raymond.

You hardly need to read between the lines to understand why ESR is terrified of codes of conduct.

Or you can find that DF story where ESR's creepiness towards women was misattributed to RMS.