It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software

Re:It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software by prepend on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:53AM (#20970756)

It depends a lot on the context. I wouldn’t want to work on a project with a pedophile. But if someone was having a conversation about early Islam and trying to understand the cultures of that time, etc then that’s an example where your statement wouldn’t be ban worthy. I just don’t think there’s a clear set of bad things that can’t be said.

Programmers I know are frequently doing thought exercises so even something like “what if murder were legal” would need to be taken in the context of the conversation to even understand what the author was advocating.

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Re:It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software by dymk on Saturday September 14, 2019 @11:56AM (#20971608)

> It depends a lot on the context

The context is Epstein and RMS claiming that this woman trafficked by him was willing. We don't need to pontificate about all these hypothetical scenarios; this concrete thing that he's defending is pretty disgusting.

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Re:It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software by gowld on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:37AM (#20992295)

Your factual claims are not true, probably because you only read the lies published on Medium and salacious reposted, and did not read the source material.

RMS surmised that the woman "presented herself as willing" to Minsky. His point is that Minsky likely (in his estimation) was not aware of the coercion. He did not defend the coercion.

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