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The feeling that you have to be super sensitive will close more doors then before - prove me wrong.
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It is not an isolated incident. There are multiple documented cases of him behaving like a creep and spouting "controversial" statements.
Name them please? The "creep" incidents, that is.
> They focused on his tone deaf communication style and awkward demeanor. They spoke of behavior from decades ago and pointed out the fact that he had a mattress in his office. It wasn't just awkward demeanor. He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. > He held his positions at MIT, GNU, and the FSF for over thirty years, and in that time nobody accused h…
" You don’t get the free software movement without a person like Richard Stallman."
Well once Stallman pass away, it will be the apocalypsis for the free software movement
He might’ve been an influential figure, but he’s still a creep. Just because someone made something once doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye towards them.
Stallman did nothing like that, he just made some comments everyone should avoid in today's new middle ages, yet he is treated like a criminal. He failed to realize there are snipers out there, possibly paid ones, waiting for the six lines that could make an argument for hanging him, and he gave them those six lines: that's his only fault.
The FOSS community will have to watch very closely who is going to benefit from his departure.
> They focused on his tone deaf communication style and awkward demeanor. They spoke of behavior from decades ago and pointed out the fact that he had a mattress in his office. It wasn't just awkward demeanor. He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. > He held his positions at MIT, GNU, and the FSF for over thirty years, and in that time nobody accused h…
Can you please cite your sources for this claim?
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> What’s most disturbing about this is how many of my friends and peers support Stallman’s removal. At first it was because they took the false accusations at face value. When I pointed out that these accusations were lies, they supported Stallman’s removal for other reasons. They focused on his tone deaf communication style and awkward demeanor. They spoke of behavior from decades ago and pointed out the fact that h…
the problem is a combination of being socially clueless but also being entirely unable to change because asking rms to change will escalate into an endless discussion about principles where he was always justified, no matter the topic, so people stopped trying at some point and went for plant defense[1] instead. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_...
To go a bit philosophical: I wonder if we can truly be rigid in some aspects and flexible in others. I guess this can be taught.
The article says you don't get the free software movement without RMS. What about BSD?
Here is a good explanation of the difference...
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/Free-vs-Ope...
The article says you don't get the free software movement without RMS. What about BSD?
Developer freedom… I guess you could consider that quite elitist, if you think about it (freedom for the ‰ or ‱).
More to your point, I have seen a lot less outreach on software freedom from BSD than from rms.