Re:Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Fre...
by orra on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:55PM
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> The second thing the appendix listed was a mattress in his office whose primary user were most likely RMS himself since he kind of had a reputation of living in the university.
Living in an office doesn't excuse having topless people on a mattress in your office.
Re:Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Fre...
by belorn on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:28AM
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The claim that his office was some playboy mansion harem goes counter to the extremely desperate concept of using suicide in order to get a date.
The 80's was a different time, but not that different. Unless the "topless people" were RMS himself sleeping on it, I have a hard time believing it. In theory I can imagine (but I doubt it) a warm summer where a team of emacs collaborators were all living and sleeping in the university office room, but I strongly doubt the implication sex went on there.
If it is true then that was bad, and I am sure that gave him a reputation that on a campus likely burned like a wild fire (it sure would do that on my university if anyone said something like that), but what is an appropriate reaction be now several decades later?
The second thing the appendix listed was a mattress in his office whose primary user were most likely RMS himself since he kind of had a reputation of living in the university.