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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @07:20PM
The problem everyone is having is assumptions about how the rest of the world is operating outside of their narrow little worldview.
I had the same problem from being unable to attract a mate IRL. There were three parts to my problems: the first was social structures instilled by school/parents/media/upstanding public figures that didn't match with reality. The romantic multi-decade true love story is bullshit told to tell tickets/merch. Anyone from childhood you will either be dating/married to by your 30s, or you will each have tried other people and get married as divorcees in your 40s, unless one or the other focused on their career and remained single until very late. For a guy that isn't a big deal, but for a woman who wants children it is a huge deal. I've been having discussions with men and women from other cultures and backgrounds, as well as people from my parent's generation (boomer) that had kids when they were younger. 18-30 is the worse time financially/experientally to have kids but also the time when you can most enjoy having them. 30-50 makes it harder and riskier to have kids, on average, and while you are more financially set you are also more detached from their interests and common culture and don't have the energy to match up with all the activities they want or need to do. Moving into the 'grandparents' age, that usually only works with an older guy and a younger woman, or more recently with an older women utilizing a surrogate and a younger man, so one parent is young and spry enough to shore up the energy needs of young to teenaged children. Unless they have stayed particularly focused on modern cultural progression however, those parents are also most likely to brign up their children vastly out of date to societal norms, which may hinder them later on in life, depending on their own ability to learn beyond what they are taught. There is lots more like helicopter vs negligent parental responsibility, but that is a discussion for another time.
In regards to the dangers of the modern out of touch societal actions: These are just the loudest groups with the publicity from hollywood other elite owned outlets. This is mostly a misdirection campaign to keep people from seeing the seedier aspects of society all around them, most of it hidden under 'puritanical' activities (religion being the most public example.) Even the SOSTA/FESTA bullshit is just to misdirect people from the actual sex trade and trafficking avenues, and it is working as the libtards focus on the adult sex markets instead of looking at the feeders for the underage ones. Same with the right-wing nutjobs,claiming to think of the children while helping 'upstanding' hebe and paedophiles get into office preaching family values. The rot is deeper than you all realize and the path forward is one you each need to think long and hard about so that the cockroaches of society can be purged before they scurry into another wall.