Why the FSF is Structured the Way It Is

Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and five others.
Friday the eight directors published a new article explaining how their goal and principles are protected by the nonprofit's governance structure:An obvious option, used by many organizations, was to let supporters sign up as members a