Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
by dralley on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:39AM
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No. If you go back and look at that accusation, it was that he was propositioning people for sex in the halls of MIT, AND he had a mattress in his office.
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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
by nyolfen on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:15AM
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> propositioning people for sex in the halls of MIT
you are going to need to cite that. the only accusations of 'sexual harassment' i have seen are asking women at conferences on dates.
Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
by jkaplowitz on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:17AM
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That counts as harassment in my opinion if it happens without at least some reasonable reason to believe the women may be interested in dating him, if he persists with a given woman after she doesn't respond with interest, if there is any sort of power dynamic or other coercive context in place that might make the woman feel not free to decline without social or professional penalty (within a community like the free software world this obstacle would often be present in relation to someone like RMS who is prominent within that community), if he makes a habit of propositioning people in professional contexts, or if he asks women out in unprofessional ways like inappropriate touching. If none of these patterns occur, it's probably not harassment, but I suspect he does some of them.
And if it is harassment, I'd probably say it's sexual harassment since it relates to unwanted seeking of romantic or sexual relationships in a professional environment.
Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
by h_anna_h on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:43AM
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He used to live in his office.
Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
by pseudalopex on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:32AM
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He moved out around 1998.[1]