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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by icebraining on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:14AM (#21114433)
> it sounds like it wasn’t far enough outside the acceptable conduct to warrant anything.

That's not how things work. Workplace "justice" is quite dependent on things like internal politics and personal affiliations. You can't rely tell how bad something was by the disciplinary response.

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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by raxxorrax on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:14PM (#21120548)
Consequently it might be correct to reserve judgement, like the author implies.
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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by bsder on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:47PM (#21119527)
Stallman is such an annoyance that if there were a credible harassment allegation against him, the MIT administration would have almost certainly made use of it before this.
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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by icebraining on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:48PM (#21120736)
There was a pretty big change in 2016. How sure are you that had no effect on his internal political situation?
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