Note: Stallman's main ideology is the creation of the free software movement, its principles and ideals. Opponents of Stallman refer to careless and frank random statements in the past, which were not previously perceived as today, were expressed not in public speeches, but in niche discussions, and after being publicized were often interpreted out of context (for example, Stallman did not justify Epstein's actions, but tried to protect Marvin Minsky, who at that time was no longer alive and he was not able to defend himself; support for abortion is called ayblism in the letter, and transphobia is the absence of the requirement to use a neologism pronoun invented by him for everyone). Stallman's supporters see the ongoing actions as bullying and an intention to split the community.

Big technology corporations with a vested interest in controlling "open source" software, and FOSS organizations they directly or indirectly fund, wrote a "open letter" viciously demonizing Richard Stallman after he announced that he will be returning to the Free Software Foundation's board in a live stream at the LibrePlanet 2021 virtual conference. Actual free software users wrote a competing open letter supporting Stallman in response. More than 3600 people have so far signed on to that letter, which is far more than the corporations and the 白左 bullies working for them have gathered.

The mainstream tech media may have a thing or two with it. The timeline of the events leading up to that letter shows a pattern of regular shameless libel against Richard Stallman from technology "news outlets" with close ties to Microsoft.