This is a nuclear take, so wearing my FOSS foundation ex-board member hat, let me take a stab at interpreting what's going on here, based on publicly available info.

Summary: the Rust Foundation is new and struggling to bootstrap. #3 in the QT isn't final.

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441662998007809

The Rust Foundation is a 501(c)(6). This means it's a non-profit trade association. It differs from a public charity in that it only has to act in the best interests of its members, *not* the general public.

Many software nonprofits are c6's; this isn't unusual or nefarious.

Would anyone like a short thread on "why your takeout salad tastes like ass but it was so good at the restaurant" ? Okay here we go @reconbot. You have likely committed one of two salad sins:
1. Didn't season it
2. Messed up the distribution of ingredients

Thread 🧵 of 501(c)(3) public charities you can support instead of the @fsf, if you care about its mission: The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) provides a fiscal home for community-governed projects like git, sponsors @outreachy, and is the only organization doing GPL enforcement: sfconservancy.org/supporter/

I am real mad about the Elastic relicense so I'm going to vent a bit. Say that I contributed some code to Elastic, under the original open source license. That license defines the terms of our engagement. Me: "hey I improved your code, can you include this fix so I and everyone can use it?" Elastic: "sure!"