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Do the rich swear more in France, or the poor?
I too wonder. One thing that I found quite interesting when moving to France was how casual everybody, even high school teachers, was with swearwords.
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> But it is a coherent philosophy on it's own, it's not some incoherent thing that makes sense only as self-interest of big corporations. I don't dispute the fact that it is coherent, but it is serving the interest of big corporations. Could you explain why do you think it doesn't? > Open source from the start as envisioned by rms and others was about creating software that users could use as they choose, including a…
I don't know how useful it is to continue this I don't think we're going to get anywhere else, but I wanted to defend myself against your accusation and say that I do not work for a "big corporation", I work for a small non-profit, intentionally (and making less money than I probably could if I were trying to maximize my income, but enough money, and I get to write open source on the clock).
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No. If you go back and look at that accusation, it was that he was propositioning people for sex in the halls of MIT, AND he had a mattress in his office.
> propositioning people for sex in the halls of MIT you are going to need to cite that. the only accusations of 'sexual harassment' i have seen are asking women at conferences on dates.
And if it is harassment, I'd probably say it's sexual harassment since it relates to unwanted seeking of romantic or sexual relationships in a professional environment.
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Canada only raised their age of consent from 14 to 16 in 2008. I don't think Canada should be cancelled as a result of this.
Legal age of consent isn't the same as being moral. These are two separate things. Nobody is saying we should 'cancel' Canada for having bad laws in the past. IMO this is a really weak argument.
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I think you and I must be reading that differently and I also think maybe you're forgetting the context of all this. The victims were as young as 11 years old and that was widely known (and surely obvious to the men involved); his comment therefore boils down to "is it REALLY statutory rape if she seems like she's OK with it?" and the answer is, of course, yes. Surely you can understand why people would see that as a…
First of all statutory rape is mostly a US phenomenon. In most other countries something either is a rape or isn't. Second, the term statutory rape is engineered to make people stop thinking and short circuit to "rape". Therefore it's toxic. There's nothing wrong with consensual sex between a 19 yo and a 17 yo. However, in the US they will be put on the rapist list and have their lifes ruined.
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This was not mob justice. There was decades of poor behavior here, he wasn't pushed out because of this singular event. https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...
So 0.0001% of his messages, most of which were said at a time when the Internet/Usenet was an innocent substitute for the local pub, are offensive to some. And we say that's "decades of poor behavior"! 80% of the population says random stuff that is a 100x worse at parties. It this article is not an impersonation, it is pretty sad that such self-righteous and intransigent statements come from a Gregorian friar: https…
I wish FSF also started caring about the developers. Free software was and is a great idea, but unintended consequence is that it also facilitates exploitation of software developers by big corporations who from the perspective of FSF are just users as regular people. This means they make billions off of a software who someone built in their rented flat, living a modest life, sometimes struggling with bills, meanwhil…
You make the developers sound like helpless individuals unable to adopt a software licence that gives them what they want, and that need people to save them from ruin. They obviously want everyone and anyone to use their software and don't care who makes money from it, if its licenced that way. They can licence it so it excludes large corporations, or even demand recompense under certain situations, such as company s…
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I think you and I must be reading that differently and I also think maybe you're forgetting the context of all this. The victims were as young as 11 years old and that was widely known (and surely obvious to the men involved); his comment therefore boils down to "is it REALLY statutory rape if she seems like she's OK with it?" and the answer is, of course, yes. Surely you can understand why people would see that as a…
First of all statutory rape is mostly a US phenomenon. In most other countries something either is a rape or isn't. Second, the term statutory rape is engineered to make people stop thinking and short circuit to "rape". Therefore it's toxic. There's nothing wrong with consensual sex between a 19 yo and a 17 yo. However, in the US they will be put on the rapist list and have their lifes ruined.