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Re:RMS addresses the free software community by bigbillheck on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:19PM (#26783038)
People keep focusing on the Minsky thing, but if Stallman hadn't spent the last 40 years being a creep (the "emacs virgin" thing), being a creep ('tender embraces'), being abusive (the FSF unionized to protect themselves from him), being abusive (https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1174044770546659329), being abusive (https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1374460763910201350), being a jerk ("These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of"), then he might have been able to weather the storm a little better.

This isn't a 'oh, he said one thing one time about one person' situation, this is instead a lifetime of behavior that for anybody else would have had consequences long ago.

Re:RMS addresses the free software community by torthrowaway998 on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:40PM (#26787586)
>the "emacs virgin" thing

He stopped doing it once people told him that it made others uncomfortable.

>being a creep ('tender embraces')

In the business cards that he gave out to people of any gender. This is not really a creepy thing to do.

>being abusive (https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1174044770546659329)

Miguel de Icaza is not a trustworthy person, especially due to the way that he betrayed the community. I am curious though, did he just sat there being passive-aggressive or did he tell rms to leave? Since nobody seems to have asked him about what actually happened I am going to.

>https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1374460763910201350

I will also ask him about this because I am curious.

>being a jerk ("These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of"),

Does not seem like a jerk thing to do.

>This isn't a 'oh, he said one thing one time about one person' situation, this is instead a lifetime of behavior that for anybody else would have had consequences long ago.

It would be great if the ones organizing harassment campaigns against him also agreed with you. So far they have been focusing on spreading lies about him (such as about epstein, the mattress, or his opinions) rather than actual repeated abuse by him after people expressed their dislike for it.

Re:RMS addresses the free software community by SuperSandro2000 on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#26783466)
but because work done in the past seems to be more important and can overshadow everything like nothing happened.