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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:14PM (#21195250)
You almost got me convinced by your alleging RMS asked organizers "to turn the house lights back up so he could see if there was anyone in the crowd he might want to have sex with". I thought, whoa, that sounds not good, bad joke, nothing criminal, but it definitely isn't a good look.

However the moment I found the video with the actual quote and the extent of your mischaracterization of the situation I reverted back to my former opinion on the whole issue (which is very close to "this is witchhunt").

Nevertheless I feel grateful to you for reinforcing me in the belief one should never ever trust any accusation without a concrete proof. I'm deeply indebted to you for this important lesson.

Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:27PM (#21186146)
> If the nicest thing we can say about a leader of an organization is that most women were not harassed by him because they didn't get to meet him,

This is extremely unfair statement, completely misrepresenting the issue.

If you rephrased it as "one of bad things we can say about a leader is he allegedly tried to push somebody into relationship in 1985" you'd be closer to the mark.

Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:08PM (#21185953)
> He's been banned from multiple free software conferences that I've visited for his behavior; the first one of such was 7 years ago.

Could you name at least couple of those conferences he was banned from? Preferably with surrounding circumstances?