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Richard M. Stallman Resigns as FSF President and from its Board of Directors
https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns (emphasis from original retained):
On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of
the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board
of directors.The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning
immediately. Further details of the search will be published on
fsf.org.For questions, contact FSF executive director John Sullivan at
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Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT Over Epstein Comments
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments
Famed free software advocate and computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT, according to an email he published online. The resignation comes after Stallman made comments about victims of child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including that the victims went along with the abuse willingly.
"I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT," Stallman wrote in the email, referring to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations."
[...] Last week, Motherboard published the full email thread in which Stallman wrote that the "most plausible scenario" is that Epstein's underage victims in his campaign of trafficking were "entirely willing." Stallman also argued about the definition of "rape" and whether the term applies to the victims.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by chromas on Tuesday September 17 2019, @08:04AM (8 children)
What do you mean? The AC was talking about what's in the summary and article, and the article author's lack of reading comprehension. It's not like he was talking about toilets or systemd. It's just about as on-topic as it can get.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday September 17 2019, @08:27AM
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday September 17 2019, @08:41AM (6 children)
(Score: 2) by chromas on Tuesday September 17 2019, @09:19AM (5 children)
👍
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:01AM (4 children)
On the face of it, janrinok's comment has +2 karma, but if one peeks slightly behind the scenes, you can see he has garnered a extremely rare pure 4-disagree modding. Kudos, janrinok!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday September 18 2019, @06:44AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday September 18 2019, @07:37AM (1 child)
Ah, but there is no "minus" to Disagree! Only a suggestion that a particular Editor might be slightly in error about the sense of the soylentils. There is no "plus" to Disagree, as well.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:57AM
You did see this [soylentnews.org] from yesterday, didn't you?
After chromas pointed out he disagreed, I re-read the comment, corrected myself, and withdrew the comment. The other 'Disagrees', including yours, all appeared after that. I guess you/they hadn't read the thread in full before commenting.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:24PM
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