Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:22PM
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Or, it was annoying but tolerable, until an opportunity presented itself to score virtue points while having past problematic behavior to use for plausible deniability.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by chungus_khan on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:00PM
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It really wasn't tolerable though. As much as I deeply respect Dr Stallman's work, he has a long history of reputationally troubling statements:
https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/archives/200...
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...
I meant this technically: it was tolerable because it was tolerated. They could've disassociated from him after any of his troubling statements. They didn't.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by shadowgovt on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:12AM
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It is, perhaps, plausible that he's a popular enough individual that they were worried about a mob reaction, if you will, if they cut ties with him because he did anything short of try to defend rape.
But to be clear, that's still a bed of his own making.