Richard M. Stallman resigns

Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by dfxm12 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:55AM (#20995089)

It's ultimately their decision, sure, in the same way that it's ultimately up to a local business owner whether they purchase a "protection plan" from the nice salesmen with the baseball bats.

If you think the brass at MIT are in any physical danger from a bunch of angry tweeters, I don't know what to tell you.

This just seems like deflection. Conditions being worse elsewhere doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss the issues that are more local to us.

No, that's a deflection. Someone choosing to step down from their job is not an issue that can, as the parent post puts it, "destroy them at any moment without warning". Being a starving child soldier in Africa is, being locked in a cage in a foreign land is.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by steveeq1 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:00PM (#20996760)

I think he's trying to say that coercion is involved.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by dfxm12 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:23PM (#20997034)

What leverage does an unorganized group of nobodies have over MIT and the FSF?

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by balaksakrionon on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:59PM (#21001569)

Signficant leverage in the realm of reputation and public perception which is quite important to large instituations?

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by steveeq1 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:06PM (#20997493)

They all simultaneously call his employer and demand that he gets fired.

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