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I'm no fan of Stallman, but I do find it worrying that some companies can unilaterally decide to sink the FSF if they don't like what it's doing. Of course, any foundation with companies on its board is at risk for that, but the fact that people who support Free Software, who ideally should shun corporate control of software, are cheering it on is disappointing, and is directly due to the kind of easy judgement peopl…
It seems a copout to blame his behaviour on his Autism. Plenty of people on the spectrum go about daily life without making grandiose public statements about pedophiles or eating toe jam in public - even for an Autistic person it's obvious that this will cause a negative reaction.
Does ADA require an airline to employ a blind pilot? Besides allowing his service dog?
This essay starts with reason and ends with a slapstick statement equivalent to Walmart being required to keep employing a greeter with (movie cliche type) Tourette’s.
There is no defined end to this non judicial punishment, especially not in this case where there has been no improvement in the cause and apparently there never will be. It’s not for mr. Perens to decide differently.
It seems a copout to blame his behaviour on his Autism. Plenty of people on the spectrum go about daily life without making grandiose public statements about pedophiles or eating toe jam in public - even for an Autistic person it's obvious that this will cause a negative reaction.
I dont see many autistic people putting racial slurs in their names but here you are.
It seems a copout to blame his behaviour on his Autism. Plenty of people on the spectrum go about daily life without making grandiose public statements about pedophiles or eating toe jam in public - even for an Autistic person it's obvious that this will cause a negative reaction.
It's ridiculous that people continue to bring that up due to lack of real material.
I suspect there's more than one type of autism, in Stallman's case it seems that he has no filter at all and always speaks the truth (i.e. what he really thinks).
Give a neurotypical person a truth serum and you might be surprised. And you'll have more material that the 10 points of the Stallman inquisitors.
RMS is abusive. I'm autistic too. When I've behaved in similar ways, I've been similarly forced to account for my behavior. I resent the fact that ostensible defense of him as a person on the spectrum is so ideological. I distrust most of his defenders' sincerity when they talk about his neurodivergence, and I don't consider them allies.
RMS publicly defended child rape. Someone like that should not get to define what freedom means.
RMS has all the right not to get attacked about his awkward behavior, but he has to feel the consequences on his ideological thought.
> Thus, they are bound by the Americans with Disability Act and other applicable law to make accommodations for a handicapped employee. Does ADA require an airline to employ a blind pilot? Besides allowing his service dog? This essay starts with reason and ends with a slapstick statement equivalent to Walmart being required to keep employing a greeter with (movie cliche type) Tourette’s. There is no defined end to th…