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Honestly. Read the fucking room. Stop tweeting, go email the rest of the board. I support the FSF but RMS needs to go. I’m a GNU speaker. I’m a prominent free software person.
Maybe start with RMS’s own damn email?
Can you provide a link to the “RMS’s own damn email” you are referring to? I only got involved in this discussion when @sarahmei decided to add my name to her stream of accusations. I don’t spend my life on Twitter.
You know how this works. Ask the sysadmins via RT to find it. Or the public archives at MIT. You’re being fucking awful right now. Your response to this is fucking awful.
Geoff, the assertion here is that RMS acts in horrifying and harmful ways (see the blog linked at the top of this thread) and there's no evidence that the FSF board consists of people who have meaningful objections to that. It's up to the board to alter that perception.
@mjg59 I don’t have a link to the blog you reference. Please include it. I’m spending the next 3 days doing volunteer work and I won’t be able to be on Twitter the whole time. Thanks.
So, you won't "read the room". You won't even read the GD thread. Sarah's whole thread STARTED with the blog in question, which contains the offensive email that RMS sent to a list that included MIT undergrads (MIT often admits prodigies who are significantly younger than 18)
But that's hardly the point. You KNOW that RMS's interactions with women are... questionable (to be generous) well-documented, and have been going on for a very long time. He personally is responsible for ushering a lot of talented people out of OSS and industry.
And here you are, personally supporting him (and presumably, you're also speaking as a member of FSF's board, which also supports him). His time is done. Any good he's done for software and the industry is past, and nothing he is doing now is worth saving.
He is (again) publicly supporting someone for raping teenagers, to an audience that includes teenagers. And you are publicly supporting him for doing so. Nice hill you've found yourself on... are you really sure you want it to be your last?
Pick up the phone and call Gerry or John right now. This looks awful and you’re doing the FSF a disservice by being “the guy” right now. Please.
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