Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman
by praptak on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:28AM
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It's a public post from 2003. Funny how nobody has dug it up for 16 years.
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I don't really have a side here, I am not surprised in the slightest that people say things that others can find offensive (what a shocker).
However since we're in the era of unerasable past, its kind of expected for people to do dig up the past. I do wonder if "society" will start applying a consistency stick to what people say. I.e. if they have had a consistent view on say pedophilia in this instance.
On that note was Stallman consistent over time to this day?
Time to work on the unerasability!
In that case I suggest you apply for a job at NSA.
The post has been widely disseminated on 4chan's /g/ for many years. So it wasn't totally forgotten.
I meant nobody has dug it up for the purpose of ousting Stallman. The fact that it's from 2003 and not exactly secret makes me doubt that it had any significance in Stallman being forced to step down. It looks more like the pitchforks & torches mob first decided they want his head and then looked for justification.