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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by tptacek on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:46PM (#21103883)
I'm not sure how they're meant to draw lines for other people; if they don't have a critical mass, Stallman can simply ignore them. If they do, he can't lead effectively, and it's their own personal lines that are the problem.
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by yabadabadoes on Saturday September 28, 2019 @08:03PM (#21103973)
So you think a critical mass of people who actually work with Stallman in the FSF and Gnu did some secret ballots then discussed this with him their shared decision or you think a critical mass stopped showing up at work (is that online?) each independently?

More realistically, he was hounded by a loud minority with most people shruging and waiting. Given that his situation with MIT is somewhat more complicated and he has a limited amount of resources for handling simultaneous emergencies..

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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by tptacek on Saturday September 28, 2019 @08:04PM (#21103976)
I think people who have come into professional contact with Stallman have had these problems for a very long time, and Stallman's extraordinarily ill-advised comments about Minsky and Epstein crystalized them.
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