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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by fortran77 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:01PM (#21103611)
Not only did he not commit a crime, he didn't even do anything other than awkwardly posit that maybe his deceased friend didn't realize he was doing something wrong. Certainly this was a tactless comment.

Now I don't personally like Richard Stallman, but the "one tactless comment and you're dead _and_ people who want to associate with you are dead, too" approach to modern Internet justice seems wrong.

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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by jcranmer on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:09PM (#21103666)
In mob justice scenarios, it helps to have associates who are willing to defend you and stand by you. But it seems that Stallman has a history of wearing out his welcomes, so that rather than supporting him, his associates instead were saying "we'll quit if you don't push him out."

When you run a public organization, personal skills do matter.

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