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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 …
Eric “ESR” Raymond is no treat of a person either, but he is no longer in charge of or a spokesperson for the OSI, the way RMS is still in charge of and a spokesperson for the FSF.https://twitter.com/pulkomandy/status/1167817128826822658 …
Wait what, he’s a pedophile? That’s not mentioned in the link?
Never forget he ate a foot goober. I’ll let you google that one on your own.
His support for child pornography is the first bullet point under incidents.
I don’t care about his personal habits - that part’s strange, but not so harmful to folks from marginalized groups.
Lmao this tweet won't have any effect at all - as if anyone (esp RMS) cares (besides me as I'm bored enough to write this)
Great, then let the record reflect that you’re sympathetic to pedophilia, misogyny, and disrespect for the disabled. What’s your name? I’m more than happy to endorse you for them on LinkedIn
It’s a good look 
You know the saying "never meet your heroes"? I met RMS and spent an hour with him on a panel. Got to experience his worst behavior in person. Lost all respect instantly. I didn't know. I should've known.
same experience here 
I was 15 and it was in 2000, and he was utterly disgusting, having no hygiene or decency.
I don't remember if he gave me one of his pleasure cards…
But now way I would make any physical contact with him 
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Now, back to topic, I'm not in a discriminated group, and I have no memories of what is reported on his exclusion behaviors.
The "pleasure card", yikes. Has anyone written about the way subcultures tend to believe they're insulated from normal moral or social rules? Basically every subculture I know has this -- people who think the normal rules don't apply because their profession is special somehow.
I know few people still glorifying him. I guess I have somehow avoided the "free software folks", then? (not to mention, having Eric S. Raymond as the head of the opensource side of things isn't any better to me)
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.
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?
Hi the unroll you asked for: Thread by @sarahmei: "Your periodic reminder that Richard “RMS” Stallman, creator of the GPL license and president of the Free Software Founda […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1167801090953187328.html …
Enjoy :) 
I've always seen him like that weird gross smelly uncle that tell the same stories at family dinners. You don't like having him around… But he's family 
Free Software Foundation is good and GNU GPL even better for the software freedom, rest of the things though concerning and bad, still doesn't make me hate FSF and GPL. I don't think there is a single human who is 'perfect' politically. Doesn't mean RMS is great, he is what he is
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