Your periodic reminder that Richard “RMS” Stallman, creator of the GPL license and president of the Free Software Foundation, is a misogynist, a pedophile, and thinks of disabled people as pets. Free software folks continue to glorify him. Receipts:https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/817377232016457728 …
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I would very much like to understand the dynamics of how Open Source opened things up to women. Was it just the new people, or did something structural about the philosophy make a difference? I'm not sure where to start googling.
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Taking a mental stab at it, I guess it required quite a bit of privilege to work for free on code that was explicitly anti-corporate. Is that part of it?
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