Richard Pokalman’s return to the Board of Directors of the Foundation SPO caused a negative reaction from some organizations and developers. In particular, the human rights organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), the director of which the winner of the Prize for the contribution to the development of free software, announced about the rupture of all relations with the Fund of the SPO and turning any activities intersecting with this organization, including refused to fund the work of the Outreachy program, provided by the Fund (the required $ 6500 SFC, will allocate from its own funds).
Organization Open Source Initiative (OSI), testing the compliance of licensees Open Source criteria, said to refuse to participate in the events in which it will participate Stallman and termination of cooperation with the SPO Foundation until the collapse is removed from the management of the organization.
It is noted that the recent time the community strives for the provision of an inclusive medium that welcomes any participants. According to OSI, building such an environment is impossible if the leading positions occupy those who adhere to the model of the behavior that does not correspond to this purpose. OSI believes that Pokolman should not occupy leadership positions in communities associated with free and open software. OSI encourages the Foundation to remove collmina from participating in the life of the Organization and take measures to compensate for harm, which collapse has caused in the past in his own words and actions.
Additional published Open letter , who signed that require the resignation of the entire Board of Directors of the SPO Foundation and Shtlman’s Offset from all leading positions including the GNU project management. The remaining members of the Council are presented as many years contributing to strengthening the influence of collisman. As long as the requirement is not proposed, it is proposed to stop any support for the SPO Foundation and participate in the events held by him. The letter has already signed almost 700 people, among which the leaders of Gnome Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy and OSI, the former Debian project leader, the former director of Apache Software Foundation, as well as some famous developers, such as Matthew Garrett.
It is argued that in the past, Pokolman demonstrated unworthy behavior, mennavitarity, negative attitude towards transsexuals and Ablism (not Equal attitude towards ordinary people and disabled), which in modern world is unacceptable for the community leader. The letter says that the community has already suffered quite a lot of fear of collmina, but as it is no longer a place in the community of developers of open and free software, and its leadership can be perceived as accepting harmful and dangerous ideology.