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I'm no fan of RMS, but it does seem cruel to oust him for just one of his (innumerable) faux pas.

• krapp 6y ago
  How? Any one of us would be tossed out of our job for far, far less. People here act as if Richard Stallman has been tortured, humiliated, tarred and feathered and sent to the stocks, but the truth is he's been gently mollycoddled and protected from the consequences of his behavior for decades and never even suffered more than minor inconvenience. I had a post show up on my Twitter feed where someone claimed Stallman licked a colleague of theirs on the arm. Even passing out the "pleasure cards" people here think are so quirky would get anyone here fired. Stallman apparently gets away with touching and licking women at will.
  • coldnose 6y ago
    I'd feel better if the mob cited his lifetime of shittiness, rather than focusing on exactly one incident. My favorite was when he gloated over Steve Jobs' death the day after he died: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29 http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_20...