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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by dependenttypes on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:24PM (#21103330)
There is a non-zero possibility that a rogue employee did this. He does not sign his web stuff with his GPG key after all.

Also, it is there twice https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#27_September...

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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by mrob on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:37PM (#21103420)
There seems to be something weird going on. Check archive.org's recent version on the site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190928070003/https://stallman....

"What's bad about" section has a "Richard Stallman" link to the Medium post, and the "donate to the Free Software Foundation" link goes to the "Richard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot" Youtube video. The Youtube link is especially suspicious because Youtube uses proprietary Javascript, which RMS has never supported.

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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by Sadkov on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:04PM (#21108572)
Javascript proprietary? Are you, people, all <redacted-expletive> here?
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by kazinator on Sunday September 29, 2019 @02:07PM (#21108601)
"Youtube uses proprietary Javascript [code], which RMS never supported ..."
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by tjr on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:45PM (#21103507)
I agree. Would like to hear more confirmation before believing this.
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by scoopertrooper on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:01PM (#21103612)
Non-zero perhaps, but quite close to zero.
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by ceejayoz on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:31PM (#21103373)
stallman.org has employees?
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by dependenttypes on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:33PM (#21103385)
I should have said volunteer, but it could as well be a FSF employee. And yes, he does not manage the site himself.
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by mattl on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:29PM (#21103790)
His personal site is not related to the FSF. It’s hosted by Positive Internet in the UK.
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