I am just stunned. Richard Stallman is forced out from MIT and FSF! He is basically made to resign from every single post!! Decades worth of building and running some of the most influential organizations simply went down the drain because of some stupid comments and trying to debate legal meaning of “sexual assualt”. He never disagreed that Minsky did something bad, that a minor was harmed. On the surface it seems his excercise of freedome of expression - a unpopular argument killed his lifetime of work and reputation. I am not sure what to think of all these. What yo all think?
Welp, time to stop giving to the FSF.
Stallman is absolutely right and a true champion of freedom. He had balls to say he was resigning under force due to pressure. Respect. Check out the email over which the bigoted leftist scum got him to resign. I actually agree with Stallman 100%. He speaks the truth and isn’t afraid of it. 👏
"Bigoted leftist scum" What are you, an imperial?
Did Atinlay2 join Google as Mr Glass ? 🤔
Took long enough. That bigot sure poisoned FSF for me. Without going into details, he was so repulsive by defining things his way and not taking others into consideration. This was just a natural progression of that selfishness.
Anyone who is surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention to him for years.
I attended his lecture once. He’s borderline delusional.
The comments here are very split.
News at 11
Sometimes blind crystalizes pretty uniformly about things
I am just shocked - SHOCKED, I say! ...shocked that he wasn't forced out of the FSF long before this. The guy is demonstrably incapable of critically engaging with opinions which oppose his own ideology. Have you ever read his essays on Facebook? It's like arguing with a child: "Hahaha they're not USERS, they're 'USEDS', get it? If you're not paying for it you're the product!" He's a pseudointellectual dinosaur who doesn't understand subtlety or nuance and can't entertain differing views. Good riddance
He is not just like that in writing. He is the same way in person. I got into it once with him, about 20 years ago. He was unable to discuss open source from a practical context, or as a broader umbrella of strategies, because he can only discuss Free Software and the ideological basis for it. He is like a broken clock, who happens to be right twice a day.
Can you imagine being stuck at a dinner party with him and Notch at your table?