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Richard M. Stallman Resigns as FSF President and from its Board of Directors
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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
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:26PM (1 child)
yeah, and he has the guts to bring up this third rail shit in an effort to make nuanced points and the bolshevik zombies freak out. i don't know that i'd agree with all of his positions but the fact that we can't even know what they are without hiring a PI, and he's whined out of his job is pitiful.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:24AM
He has a history of creepy-old-manisms towards women. Then again, the videos of him eating his toe jam while giving a talk show that he's the type of guy who you have to take anywhere twice - once for the event, the second time to apologize.
My sky looks blue. I don't think his world has the same sky. Rationality without awareness is just uninformed stupidity. In his case, he used his reputation for social ineptness as a weapon, because he's not that stupid, but he thinks everyone else is. Typical narcissist.
But hey, it's not like he'll be missed. The only thing he's done for years of note is to keep pushing the stupid GNU/Linux label. It's like he's STILL not aware that Linux already stands for Linux is not Unix, so Gnus not Unix is a redundancy - and totally inaccurate since there's software like the Gnu Image Manipulation Program that would properly be called IMP instead or GIMP when running on Windows. Then again, it should just be called IMP on all platforms, avoid all controversies over derogatory terms towards people.
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