There is a huge cult of personality around Richard Stallman, which you may or may not want your project to be associated with.
Many - a lot of - FSF followers are fanatical, to the point of extremism. Your project will become associated with all of this, even if you personally dislike Richard Stallman.
Leah witnessed this with libreboot, despite having met Richard several times and finding him contemptible as a human being, for various reasons, even if the free software philosophy is morally correct.
Here is an example: web.archive.org
In this blog post on his website, he refers to kids with down syndrome as "pets". This is unacceptable, for a person who is in such a position of influence, as he is.
He has said similarly nasty things about children and childbirth in the past, and has made sexist jokes. For instance, he once described women who have never used GNU Emacs as EMACS virgins. Leah is an emacs virgin.
Leah Rowe is a woman, and she recommends Vim. Her .vimrc is on vimuser.org.
Personal statement from Leah:
>RMS's comments about emacs virgins is especially offensive to me. Not only is it sexist in general (and directed at me, because I don't use emacs), but also offensive towards my sexuality. His statement implies that men are supposed to have sex with virgin women, and that women only lose their virginity to men. To this day, I've only ever been in lesbian relationships, although I am bi. I lost my virginity to a woman. I find it extremely insulting when someone assumes that I only like men, or that I'm generally interested in men. The woman that I lost my virginity to also happens to be a Vim user, and she is indeed an emacs virgin, like me.
