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Will OSI participate in any future events hosted on the MIT or Harvard campuses after these universities' complicity in helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecutio

Will OSI participate in any future events hosted on the MIT or Harvard campuses after these universities' complicity in helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors was exposed by whistle-blowers? Not sure why it would be appropriate to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstein-affair-president-rafael-reif-should-not-running-mit/C3weZQW2qtw6qbEgFkNFJO/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei... Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus either: https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op-ed https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op... What are the allegations against Stallman regarding the aiding and abetting of sex-trafficking and/or child rape?

notsureaboutpg 6y ago
Exactly, OSI is going to happily go to conferences at MIT and Harvard without mentioning anything about those institutions' multiple, documented actions to protect child rapists when they attend, but they will essentially do a social boycott of RMS because his comments were a bit rude.
- BFatts 6y ago
  "a bit rude" in whose opinion? Yours? I'm glad that's settled because I was wondering how the rest of us should see it. I mean, since your opinion of what happened is de facto and all.
- selfishgene 6y ago
  The most important thing that Harvard and MIT have that RMS does not ... is $50 billion between them in endowments. OSI will never forget that ... especially given how many cheerleaders there are for creating more open source software on both of these campuses.

notsureaboutpg 6y ago

Exactly, OSI is going to happily go to conferences at MIT and Harvard without mentioning anything about those institutions' multiple, documented actions to protect child rapists when they attend, but they will essentially do a social boycott of RMS because his comments were a bit rude.

BFatts 6y ago
"a bit rude" in whose opinion? Yours? I'm glad that's settled because I was wondering how the rest of us should see it. I mean, since your opinion of what happened is de facto and all.
selfishgene 6y ago
The most important thing that Harvard and MIT have that RMS does not ... is $50 billion between them in endowments. OSI will never forget that ... especially given how many cheerleaders there are for creating more open source software on both of these campuses.