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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: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 28 2019, @01:19AM
The reason starOffoce, OpenOffice, and LibraOffice aren't everywhere is because they are shit (I don't use any Microsoft products, so the only shill here is you). Open source is not inherently better than, or worse than, closed source. The problem is that we are seeing that open source has a funding sustainability problem. Systemd is a good example - most users don't see a need for it, but there it is because businesses want it and are willing to pay for developing and maintaining it.
Most software is shit. Doesn't matter whether it's open or proprietary. Zealots have to come up with an answer to sustainable funding for open source, or more people are going to develop for closed source. Take a look at all the closed source apps. Vastly outnumber the open source ones. Same with games, and games are the biggest financial revenue generator in computing today.
Those games have a sustainable revenue model that has produced competition and sequels. Can't say the same for open source games, can you? Lincity, Pingus, Etc,... not anywhere in the same league.
Devs need to eat. Proprietary development pays, so proprietary developers can eat. I would love if there were some magic way to make open source make as much economic sense for devs, but it's not happening. Same as I would like world peace and an end to corruption, but that's not happening either.
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