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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by tw20190916jobdg on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:21PM (#20990272)
How do you reconcile

(a) your implication that Stallman is flip-flopping due to public pressure

with

(b) Stallman's lifetime as a Diogenean polemic who has been shown to stand by his beliefs, no matter how unpopular?

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by rongenre on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:29PM (#20991108)
He's not in jail, he can continue on twitter all he wants.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by tw20190916jobdg on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:57AM (#20993594)
If that's supposed to somehow make sense as a reply to what I wrote, you're going to have to explain it.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by ceejayoz on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:29PM (#20990319)
There's a difference between "unpopular but everyone knows I'm quirky" and "this might be an existential threat to my ability to keep running the FSF etc.".
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by tw20190916jobdg on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:02AM (#20993616)
Two things:

1. Stallman already has a lifetime of of examples of somewhat poor leadership within the GNU project, resulting in decisions that have compromised GNU and FSF's trajectory (compared to their potential), so once again, these are not new circumstances

2. How is Stallman doing FSF under threat here?

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:31AM (#20994163)
> How is Stallman doing FSF under threat here?

He resigned from the FSF presidency and board yesterday a few hours after my comment, which should answer that question.

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