And also, @fsf, while we're at it, lemme let you in on something else:
Your refusal to part ways with him - despite well-known incidents that have pushed women & others out of free software for decades - might have been ok 10 years ago. Maybe even 2 years ago.
It's not ok now.
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Warnings about him have been circulating among young women for at least 30 years. He's written things publicly about adult/child sex being OK in "consensual" circumstances for ~20 He's been getting a free pass for a generation because of GNU and Emacs. It is time for that to end
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I do not dispute that he's had an insane amount of influence over modern computing and the overall success of *NIX and OSS... but that's not the end of it. His behavior, and a generation of young men following him, have successfully pushed out many thousands of women from CS.
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A lot of them don't see this as a problem. He's absolutely shaped the industry, in some ways for the better, in other ways for the worse. In 2019, I don't think he has anything to offer that will make OSS, CS, or industry better. RMS and those like him are the pipeline problem.
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