3 ms·
It's not a matter of whether they use his software. It's a matter of, he posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the
by crazypython 6y ago
It's not a matter of whether they use his software. It's a matter of, he posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the one post where he argued for a different definition of rape.[0]
He is accused of being transphobic despite asking everyone to "honor their preferences about their gender identity" with respect to pronouns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613
After Stallman condemned the rape of a 17 year old girl in the Epstein case, Marvin Minksy had sex with the girl, unaware the girl was being coerced by Epstein. In accordance with the law of Canada and most U.S. states, it is legal to have sex with a 16 year old girl. Nonetheless, the open letter accused him of pedophilia.
The letter also claimed that for thirty years, had an unacceptable way of asking women out on dates. He can be taught a better way to ask women out.
He has never been accused of groping or sexual assault.
[0]: Ctrl-F this for "rape": https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#14_May_2018_(Death_sentence_in_Sudan) https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman....
- crazypython 6y agoThe "sexual harassment for decades" Stallman did was asking out women in a creepy way. The original open letter's Appendix has two true claims (and one false claim I won't address here): - In 1999, he had a mattress in his office which he slept on. This made some women avoid RMS because they considered it abnormal and creepy. - In 1985, he told a woman he'd kill himself if he didn't date her.