On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:11 PM Roman Mamedov rm@romanrm.net wrote:
Could be important to note that no harassment allegations were ever aimed at RMS himself, he's just being attacked for posting a personal opinion about unrelated events.
This is untrue, it's even covered in the open letter
https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88
Long before this incident, Stallman was contributing to an uncomfortable
environment for women at MIT in a very real and visceral way.
Many, many years ago, women in the AI and CS labs met to deal with the
problematic atmosphere for women in the labs. We met as a group, discussed the issues, complied examples, presented them to the labs, then wrote a report. In the early 80’s, it was a pretty big deal but it would seem it did not have lasting effects.
This isn't a case of him just being attacked for a personal opinion.
Even if it was, at what point do we accept that repeatedly stating that opinion undermines the work your foundation is supposed to be doing?
Ah, I see, feminists and leftists must be triggered right now, but how does this relate to the Tor Project or Mozilla in anyway?
It's always fun to get in a group and pick on someone who is weak and cannot answer, i.e. the "schoolyard" mentality.
Sure, it's not the best PR for both but if he's a valuable (code)
contributor I'd let it slip - anyone remember the Freedom of speech principle?
He doesn't code as much these days, but he launched Free Software as a concept, wrote the General Public License and some cornerstone software such as GCC, it is thanks to him that we have such operating system as GNU/Linux. Here's how it all went: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
It's true, we have a lot to thank RMS for. It doesn't necessarily follow that he's still the right figurehead, or even an appropriate one.
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