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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, @03:49PM (4 children)
I think you are saying something that is anti-intellectual.
Try being intellectual, that is what we are all here for.
With the advent of mind reading technology and emf flooding, it is also not very crazy at all to consider faraday caging your personal space.
Also, if you are going to try to end a discussion with a thought terminating cliche, try to reformulate it somehow so you don't sound like a robot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @04:46PM
The beauty of being a robot is one faraday cage is built into skull, thus removal or slippage is less easy or more likely fatal when done so.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Monday September 23 2019, @07:07PM (2 children)
So you're saying the guy in jail who died was NOT Epstein? A body double or some poor random shmoe?
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday September 23 2019, @08:18PM (1 child)
The main sauce for this conspiracy is a 4chan post (screencapped here) [twimg.com] which seems to have been posted slightly before the news hit the mainstream media, but after the death was leaked to 4chan by somebody else who didn't make the body double claim. Another piece of evidence is this commonly circulated profile comparison of his face before and after death, [twimg.com] which is supposed to show differences in the nose and ears. I think like the variance is explainable through changes over time, but I'm no expert on that. I feel like somebody with that kind of money might have been able to bribe enough people to pull off a body swap, but Epstein is probably actually dead. The fact that they took him off suicide watch so quickly after the first attempt does seem odd, though I could see a billionaire bribing his way off suicide watch just to die, too. If he did pull off a swap, it would raise the question of what the first suicide attempt was about. A botched first swap attempt?
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday September 23 2019, @08:24PM
Oh, another thing is that the name was removed from his headstone to prevent vandalism. [israelnationalnews.com]