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Thomas Bushnell, former maintainer of GNU Hurd until his dismissal by Richard Stallman, has opined in a biased blog post that the forced resignation of Stallman from MIT and the Free Software Foundation is deserved.
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84
So Richard Stallman has resigned from his guest position at MIT and as President of the Free Software Foundation. You can easily find out all you need to know about the background from a web search and some news articles. I recommend in particular Selam G's original articles on this topic for background, and for an excellent institutional version, the statement from the Software Freedom Conservancy.
But I'll give you a personal take. By my reckoning, I worked for RMS longer than any other programmer.
[...]4) RMS's loss of MIT privileges and leadership of the FSF are the appropriate responses to a pattern of decades of poor behavior. It does not matter if they are appropriate responses to a single email thread, because they are the right thing in the total situation.
5) I feel very sad for him. He's a tragic figure. He is one of the most brilliant people I've met, who I have always thought desperately craved friendship and camaraderie, and seems to have less and less of it all the time. This is all his doing; nobody does it to him. But it's still very sad. As far as I can tell, he believes his entire life's work is a failure.
6) The end result here, while sad for him, is correct.
The free software community needs to develop good leadership, and RMS has been a bad leader in many ways for a long time now. He has had plenty of people who have tried to help him, and he does not want help.
MIT needs to establish as best it can that paramount are the interests of women to have a safe and fair place to study and work. It must make clear that this is more important than the coddling of a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @03:47PM (3 children)
The united states is a multicultural place, indians, mexicans, chinese, black, white, svengali, that is the beauty of it and this can solve the problems in our world if our success were to spread, and they have quite a bit I believe over the last 50 years.
I also agree every country and every nationality has these things that go on, dutroux for example in the netherlands, but in My Country, there is one country that has a huge number of 'dual loyalty' people in 'key positions', including the president, acosta, treasury officials, fbi officials, etc etc.
So yes, I believe, as an American, I have to stand up for my country and say that this is a problem with israel.
Israel is also ruining the UN making it impossible to solve any other issues and is allowed to flaunt every foreign corruption law with aipac et al, which has led to russians, chinese and all manner of other countries following suit.
Israeli is a singular problem for the united states and the world. Full Stop. You are right this will attract some actual nazis thinking they can be my friend, they can not though because I'm not going to align with aryan nazis to fight zionist ones. Israeli mucky mucks will also try to provoke me into saying nazi things intentionally and may actually be funding right wing nazi-ish parties like the AFD because their real enemy is centrists like me and Bernie Sanders, a bunch of wingnuts in swastikas helps their cause in every way.
All jewish people are not israelis or zionists, just like all black people can't play basketball and all asians aren't good at math. But israeli zionists want to conflate and confuse this, and have been doing so for a very long time, playing the victim, taking over more 'key positions', cancel culturing their enemies like stallman, and I'm sick of it.
You should be too. It has no place in western civilization. None.
There is no such thing as holy land that belongs to a specific race or religion of people, this idea is absolute horseshit that is at risk of ruining the entire planet.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @06:14PM (1 child)
No, it's not "the beauty of it". It is the mistake that is coming home to roost.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @09:22PM
Ya, all those invading white people really ruined the continent. Thankfully some of the natives are returning :)
All mentally healthy wwhite folks are welcome, the rest will have to be deported back to where you came from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @09:44PM
Close, but not quite. The Dutroux case was in Belgium.