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> It dismisses the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT Does this extend beyond hearsay and having a "Knight for Justice (also: hot ladi
by craigsmansion 7y ago
> It dismisses the decades of Stallman's abuse of his positions at FSF and MIT
Does this extend beyond hearsay and having a "Knight for Justice (also: hot ladies)" sign on his door?
Also, where do these "decades" suddenly come from? His most vociferous accusers on social media wouldn't have been alive, or at least far too young to have attended MIT.
> which are the real reason he should have been removed from power.
Power? Exactly what power can a "visiting scientist"--a made-up quirky title, wield?
Or do you mean his power to travel around the world and talk about Free Software?
Do you even know who he is?
- sp332 7y agoIncidents are remarkably easy to find, if you're really interested. I'm not feeling especially motivated to make your ignorance my problem.
- ohiovr 7y agoI want to know so name 3.
- sp332 7y agoI made another comment in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000374 and here's an extra one I didn't use https://twitter.com/tamidon/status/1172345517248040961 https://twitter.com/tamidon/status/1172345517248040961 so see if you can find what you want in there.
- ohiovr 7y ago30 years ago? every one of these links is heresay from just 4 days ago. That is reviling.
- sp332 7y agoJust for curiosity/entertainment: hearsay is evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay Most are first-person accounts so they're not actually hearsay. And anyway what kind of thing were you looking for? Some kind of physical artifact? A confession written by RMS personally?
- ohiovr 7y agoAn article, a conversation, anything of the actual public past. Name a forum, scan a newspaper clipping or artifact. Twitter posts from not even a week ago should not have this kind of authority. Or have you considered it ever happening to you?
- sp332 7y agoI was more interested in the credibility of the people than the medium. But how about the EMACS Virgins joke incident from 2009? http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/emailing-richard-stallman.html?showComment=1247268813706#c2710654169843897013 http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/emailing-richard-... A published book from 2002? https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch14.html https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch14.html (The interview at the bottom.) His own website about an incident in 1988? https://web.archive.org/web/20020204031846/http://www.stallman.org/texas.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020204031846/http://www.stallm... I'm assuming you've seen by now the door with the "hot ladies" sign, and the times he mentioned pedophilia and necrophilia on his website because those got mentioned a lot more.
- ohiovr 7y agoEveryone knows RMS is an eccentric, that he hates all things closed source even when it is silly. That eccentric people are also very lonely is easy to understand as I can identify with that. Some have compared him to a Diogenes type character. Apparently the twitter posts are enough to make him drink the hemlock. Just know it can happen to anyone. Even you.
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- craigsmansion 7y agoSo "no" then? Unless you mean him asking for a date and people saying "no", which is in no way related to "abuse of his positions". Words matter, even if you can't feel bothered to motivate them, which is the problem in a nutshell in the first place.