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rando832 7y ago
So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone in software who's said anything offensive, including Linus, etc.
- sascha_sl 7y ago
  >The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Source? I have no reason to disbelieve the claim, this discussion on Wikipedia seems to correlate it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_8#Stallman's_plant-phobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_... Besides dismissing one person at face value... is that all you have to say about these?
  - Corazoor 7y ago
    Well... An anonymous source, from the internet, which itself had heard of this only through another party. Dismissing unreliable sources like that is a safe default, no? But more to the matter at hand, Stallman himself has a story about him smelling on plants, albeit dead: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html So, the far more reliable source seems to suggest that, indeed, he doesn't fear plants.
eej2ya1K 7y ago
Are you... are you serious? Do you expect this to convince sane people? The disingenuousness on display in these threads is amazing. "Maybe this is RMS's last-ditch effort to return to his glory days, when he could put abortion references in the documentation, and talk about virginity in his conference talks, and nobody would push back." "I’m a CIS male and I’ve avoided GPL and every event he’s associated with in boston for over ten years because I didn’t like his macho-aggressive attitudes towards everything." "If a women reports a FOSS hero, does anyone hear it?" Oh, and for some reason pretty much everyone in these threads is either mistaken or deliberately lying about his recent comments about Minsky. These people are trying to ruin someone's life and they're treating the entire thing like a joke.
- sascha_sl 7y ago
  >Do you expect this to convince sane people? I don't expect this to convince insane people. By which i mean you're insane. You take people using inclusive language as automatically dismissible. Clear sign I'm wasting my time. >Oh, and for some reason pretty much everyone in these threads is either mistaken or deliberately lying about his recent comments about Minsky. These threads are mostly dated 2018. The one tweet that isn't is referencing a talk from August. I don't know what you're talking about.

rando832 7y ago

So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone in software who's said anything offensive, including Linus, etc.

sascha_sl 7y ago
>The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Source? I have no reason to disbelieve the claim, this discussion on Wikipedia seems to correlate it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_8#Stallman's_plant-phobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_... Besides dismissing one person at face value... is that all you have to say about these?
- Corazoor 7y ago
  Well... An anonymous source, from the internet, which itself had heard of this only through another party. Dismissing unreliable sources like that is a safe default, no? But more to the matter at hand, Stallman himself has a story about him smelling on plants, albeit dead: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html So, the far more reliable source seems to suggest that, indeed, he doesn't fear plants.

eej2ya1K 7y ago

Are you... are you serious? Do you expect this to convince sane people? The disingenuousness on display in these threads is amazing. "Maybe this is RMS's last-ditch effort to return to his glory days, when he could put abortion references in the documentation, and talk about virginity in his conference talks, and nobody would push back." "I’m a CIS male and I’ve avoided GPL and every event he’s associated with in boston for over ten years because I didn’t like his macho-aggressive attitudes towards everything." "If a women reports a FOSS hero, does anyone hear it?" Oh, and for some reason pretty much everyone in these threads is either mistaken or deliberately lying about his recent comments about Minsky. These people are trying to ruin someone's life and they're treating the entire thing like a joke.

sascha_sl 7y ago
>Do you expect this to convince sane people? I don't expect this to convince insane people. By which i mean you're insane. You take people using inclusive language as automatically dismissible. Clear sign I'm wasting my time. >Oh, and for some reason pretty much everyone in these threads is either mistaken or deliberately lying about his recent comments about Minsky. These threads are mostly dated 2018. The one tweet that isn't is referencing a talk from August. I don't know what you're talking about.