There is no new or intellectually gratifying ground to cover with this. People have made up their minds, joined their tribes, drawn their lines in the sand and are just throwing bottles at one another at this point. If the subject of these threads weren't Richard Stallman, but some other celebrity, they would all be flagged as mainstream news and flamebait and rightly so.

Let me save everyone the trouble and condense 90% of the state of these threads now and in the future:

- Richard Stallman did nothing wrong, this is just character assassination by the feminist media complex.

- Richard Stallman did nothing wrong, this is just an attack on free software by corporate interests.

- Richard Stallman did nothing wrong, insert tedious, pedantic argument about age of consent and assault here.

- You can't prove Marvin Minsky did anything wrong either.

(...)

- Richard Stallman was actually a sexist creep who had no concept of consent and the many, many stories about his behavior towards women finally caught up with him.

  - Richard Stallman did nothing wrong.

The story is worth talking about, but it doesn't deserve more coverage than it's getting here.