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Richard Stallman’s Exit Heralds a New Era in Tech

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Re: Richard Stallman’s Exit Heralds a New Era in Tech

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Post by adrianN »

thrower123 wrote: post #4

It's a little unsettling that there is such an effort to give more importance to Stallman now, in his disgrace, than he ever had in reality. He'd reached the point of being nearly forgotten until he shot his mouth off inopportunely and caught the full force of the outrage mob.

In my filter bubble RMS was getting more and more important as more and more of his predictions became true. Now more than ever are software freedoms at risk, thanks to Software As A Service Substitute. I find it sad that his career ends in this way and hope that his legacy will live on.

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Post by _Nat_ »

frabbit wrote: post #6

He asks her out on a date. She says no. He moves on. Is the Wired article mis-representing the gist of Christine Corbett Moran's complaint? Or is the author subtly trying to undermine her?

Is that a misrepresentation?

I mean, I'm not familiar with that story, just they linked [this tweet](https://twitter.com/corbett/status/994012399656042496) which says:

> My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire conversation. Christine, yes, no thanks.

Re: Richard Stallman’s Exit Heralds a New Era in Tech

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Post by pessimizer »

moomin wrote: post #3

We can hope so. Free Software is needed in today’s society, probably more than it was needed at its inception. But it needs to be for everyone, and needs new leaders. I hope this is the start, not the end, of the movement.

I hope with you, but I doubt. There was nothing keeping new leaders from emerging before. Stallman never struck me as particularly jealous, just particular. We might just be witnessing the retirement of the only person with the single-mindedness and influence to keep the thing going.

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Post by rpiguy »

verroq wrote: post #10
kd3 wrote: post #7

Yeah, a new era of brain damage, irrationality and emotions winning over facts. Congratulations.

It is truely 2019 when Stallman gets nailed for something he didn’t say, while Wired, Vice and god knows how many medium blogs celebrate this as “progress”.

Nobody expects the Inquisition.

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

kd3 wrote: post #9
frabbit wrote: post #6

He asks her out on a date. She says no. He moves on. Is the Wired article mis-representing the gist of Christine Corbett Moran's complaint? Or is the author subtly trying to undermine her?

What was her complaint exactly? Are men not supposed to ask her out?

Uh, it’s certainly not appropriate to ask someone you’ve just met at a technical conference to go on a date with you.

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Post by rabidrat »

kd3 wrote: post #9
frabbit wrote: post #6

He asks her out on a date. She says no. He moves on. Is the Wired article mis-representing the gist of Christine Corbett Moran's complaint? Or is the author subtly trying to undermine her?

What was her complaint exactly? Are men not supposed to ask her out?

Kind of gross for a guy in his 40s to be asking out a 19-year-old freshman at the university he's a professor at, isn't it? And in the first minute of their first conversation, and with no interest in her other than that.

Also I'd say she wasn't complaining, or trying to condemn him. The facts kind of speak for themselves though--this is not a guy who makes women feel welcome.

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Post by zzzcpan »

rpiguy wrote: post #14
verroq wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is truely 2019 when Stallman gets nailed for something he didn’t say, while Wired, Vice and god knows how many medium blogs celebrate this as “progress”.

Nobody expects the Inquisition.

I think it's pretty obvious that US propaganda and censorship machine pushed into tech at full force in the last couple of years, with all the manufacturing consent at all levels. When they forced codes of conduct, inquisition was already kind of expected.

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Post by bjourne »

"Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program."

Is the above comment in the glibc manual something to be upset about? I don't understand why.

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Post by Barrin92 »

prepend wrote: post #17

Certainly now tech is finally free to be inclusive. I look forward to the wonderful surge of commits from people who didn’t feel welcome enough to send in their code. Has Freeer Software Foundation been started yet?

What commits did Stallman make after gcc and emacs? He was a pontificating creep and mothing more for decades. The software world will be better off with people in charge who don't endorse politically absolutist creeds or are so socially maladjusted that they make every woman in a ten feet radius uncomfortable. We don't need people who think defending child abusers or pedophilia is appropriate in this community.The only scandal about this is that he wasn't ousted fifteen years ago.
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