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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by kragen on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:42AM (#21122612)
Fouled up his room? What do you mean, like, he couldn't figure out how to operate the hotel room door lock?
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by Arnt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:39AM (#21122907)
No, he stayed as a guest at the home of one of the DKUUG regulars and his girlgriend, who afterwards wrote an angry article about it in the DKUUG-nyt. I see the early-nineties issues have been scanned, http://www.dkuug.dk/wp-content/themes/dkuug/arkiv, but I haven't the time to look through them now. The main issues were matters of personal hygiene and the way he treated the girlfriend.

Much the same all been posted later, again and again, https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac... links and quotes a bit.

Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by prepend on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:31AM (#21123869)
I still don’t understand what you mean by “fouled up his room?”

Do you mean he messed up the furniture? Spilled tomato sauce on everything? Overflowed the toilet?

Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by eej2ya1K on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:02AM (#21126049)
There's a reason all these stories stay so vague - as soon as the details come out, it turns out to be lies, exaggerations or really really minor stuff.

By keeping the narrative at the level of "fouled up his room", "made women feel uncomfortable", "drove people out of open source" the people who attack him can make sure that no one can prove them "wrong". Of course, they also ensure that they can't prove anything themselves, but it's not really about that.

Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by prepend on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:41PM (#21131647)
I guess a good criteria for criticism should at least be something that passes AirBnB editorial review.
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by sgt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:06AM (#21126123)
That archive is a gem on its own! I can't find the article about RMS though, and I've scanned through about 16-17 issues so far. Do you happen to know which issue it is?

Aside from that, this is a great magazine and it's so much fun reading through old articles from the 80s and 90s about Unix. I didn't know Denmark had such a large Unix scene back then.

Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by Arnt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:36PM (#21129647)
I've clicked a fair few myself, looking for it... I read the story in 1994 or slightly later, but it was old already. I'm running the whole archive through pdfsandwich now to be able to grep.
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by Arnt on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:11AM (#21133789)
Grep found it: Issue 121, dated long after 1994.
Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by sgt on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:33AM (#21134937)
Thanks. Read it now. This is a great article and I laughed out loud several times. RMS is a true eccentric.

Note the footnote:

>> Det skal iøvrigt nævnes, at RMS til daglig bor på sit kontor på Massaschusets Institute of Technology, hvor han engang har arbejdet, så det er måske ikke så mærkeligt, at hans sociale evner er begrænsede.