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He was misunderstood, at the wrong time (this is linked to Epstein's case). Acted like I would expect my autist friend to act (except Stallman doesn't have the
by orwin 3y ago
He was misunderstood, at the wrong time (this is linked to Epstein's case). Acted like I would expect my autist friend to act (except Stallman doesn't have the same speech impediment most Asperger as deep on the spectrum have, which doesn't help in this case) to defend himself. It didn't work, people dug up an uniformed take on pedophilia from 20 years ago to make his more recent take seems worst than it is, and people found out he acted flirty/creepy in the workplace (which I mean, yeah, nowadays it's creepy to try to flirt in the workplace, and it should be worse if you're socially awkward).
To be honest, I think most people do not care about his Epstein and pedophilia comments, but the 'creepy in the workplace' hit home for a lot of people in the FOSS community (it did for me), so he's 'soft canceled' for it.
I wouldn't mind him as a speaker, IC, advisor... I do mind him as a director/boss/manager
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- lifeline82 3y agoThe main benefice is eclipsing legitimate voice advocating open source since many years in a very radical way and often at cost for private companies which are open source washing their predatory business practices. So basically all old whites males figures who spent years developing GNU and linux and many library for no benefits and for just empowering all mankind, are just pushed away, in the worst depictables ways so that capitalistic predation can extend everywhere. Open sources, Linux, run everythings in industry worldwide. Capitalist cannot let the governance of thoses projects in the hand of aging white anarchist males. Therefor the capitalist predators use their puppet "woke" asset to silence and clean all open source movement from their enemies. This started with code of conduct, pushed by transgender who are the most perverse form of misoginy. TLDR: it's all about money and power.