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> He is abusive against everyone around him. He has sexually harassed numerous women near him, to the point that people lock themselves in their offices when he
by mustafa_pasi 6y ago
> He is abusive against everyone around him. He has sexually harassed numerous women near him, to the point that people lock themselves in their offices when he visits.
Then why didn't these women report him to the whoever competent authorities at MIT? Or to the police if the crime is serious enough?
Why are they signing an open letter on the internet instead?
Please don't parrot unfounded heresy.
- user-the-name 6y agoAre you saying all the people, from many different backgrounds, organisations, and genders, are all lying when they talk about RMS's abusive and harassing behaviour?
- mustafa_pasi 6y agoMost of those people have never been in the same room with RMS.
- user-the-name 6y agoI am talking specifically, and only, about the people who have been in the same room with RMS.
- Taniwha 6y agoheresy?
- p_l 6y agoKnowledge on RMS' behaviour tended to move slowly, probably heavily in part due to hero worship before one met him. And I'm not talking about the horrific behaviour towards opposite sex, or other unprivileged groups. Tales of "I idolized RMS and thought he was at worst a bit hippy in behaviour then I met him and now I never want to again" tended to move word of mouth, sometimes with background feeling of "do not want to rock the boat, I want Free Software to flourish".
- pjc50 6y ago> why didn't these women report him to the whoever competent authorities at MIT? Or to the police if the crime is serious enough? For the same reason that Epstein, Weinstein, or Cosby had a huge number of victims that didn't report anything: each victim individually calculated that reporting it was far more likely to wreck their career than achieve anything positive.