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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by gruez on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:37PM (#20991157)
>If you are in a position of leadership however, you incur responsibilities. [...]

>A person in a leadership or representational role doesn't get to publicly speculate about "clothing and sexual assault" in the abstract [...]

How is this applicable to Stallman? What was Stallman doing at MIT? It doesn't seem like he's in any sort of leadership position.

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by pryce on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:49PM (#20991271)
1) President of the FSF is a leadership position.

2) It would take a staggering feat of mental gymnastics to suggest Dr. Stallman's idiosyncratic role at CSAIL -described variously as "visiting scientist"- absolves him of having leadership responsiblities to students.

3) Though I did not go into details at the time, the argument above applies more widely than leaders per se - it applies to people who affiliate with and represent organisations; for example, I think we could probably agree it would apply to television anchors whether or not they led a 'team' of any kind.

Stallman's relationship with MIT (and vice versa) is a public enough role that I've known about for nearly 20 years though I live on the other side of the planet.

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by lazylizard on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:19AM (#20995388)
President of the fsf. Free as in speech.
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