Richard Stallman is the reason I didn’t start contributing to open source (then called “free software”) in the 90s. I’m not the only one. He and his followers pushed out a whole generation of female developers, just at that critical time when open source adoption was widening.https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/993677847280562178 …
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My Stallnan story is in the 80s he didn’t believe in putting a password on his account. I decided that was not someone to interact with.
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Wasn't that in the context of a shared computing environment at a university?
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