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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by glangdale on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:32AM (#21122081)
The problem with your argument is that it implies that the people who were chased away from CSAIL, MIT or CS in general by people like Stallman were all planning to pile into a giant ineffective committee with each other and thus can be assumed to be No Great Loss, which is... a rather peculiar leap of logic.

There's no reason to suppose this. Even accepting your logic, the people he discouraged from CS might have wound up being highly effective solo contributors or worked in small teams.

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by asjw on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:27AM (#21122832)
> people who were chased away from CSAIL, MIT or CS in general by people like Stallman

Stallman never chased away anybody from CSAIL

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by glangdale on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:07AM (#21123762)
I doubt he was the sole cause of someone leaving CSAIL or CS, but I've met plenty of women who were discouraged from CS by constant "weird dudes leering at my chest" or "constantly asking me for dates" etc. Based on the tales of his behavior the balance of probabilities are Not Good that he hasn't been at least partially responsible for some people deciding "well, maybe CS isn't for me".
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