Stallman was the founder - and is STILL the President and Board Chair - of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF is enormously influential. Among other activities, it publishes the software licenses used by much of the 'copyleft' world - the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL licenses.
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I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.
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I'm done. The free software community looks the other way while they build their empires on licenses that sustain Stallman's power.
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@fsf - fire your President and Board Chair. He just sent an email to the MIT computer science community claiming that sex with an underaged girl is not rape. I know you know about him and his 'problematic' ideas already. Just letting you know that WE KNOW.23 replies 482 retweets 1,400 likesShow this thread -
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@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.6 replies 113 retweets 780 likesShow this thread -
Sarah Mei Retweeted 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈
Let's see - who's on the
@fsf board of directors? Could we count on them to do the right thing? Ok, first name on the list is Gerald J. Sussman....oh.https://twitter.com/H0tdish/status/1166445162681249792?s=20 …Sarah Mei added,
𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 @H0tdishMIT-CSAIL; heart of com$ci/infosec, we sadly find ppl we respect, allegedly supporting a man who sexually assaulted minors. :/ MIT Gerald Sussman: “Jeffrey Epstein is one of the most amazing, interesting, & brilliant people that I know". https://web.archive.org/web/20101112051649/http://www.jeffreyepsteinscience.com/testimonials/ …5 replies 87 retweets 429 likesShow this thread -
Second name on the list is Geoffrey Knauth -
@gknauth - who retweeted a hideous Bret Stephens NYT editorial about how all this 'liberalism' is eroding 'excellence' https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/university-campus-diveristy-inclusion-free-speech.html … Not holding my breath for either of these gents.5 replies 51 retweets 363 likesShow this thread -
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Ok third name on the list is
@HenryPoole - seems to be friends with child rapist apologist@lessig - also tweeted this approvingly https://twitter.com/jgbarah/status/832282512818741248 … It's not looking goodSarah Mei added,
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You make some good points about RMS but calling Lessig a "child rape apologist" is extremely offensive. He was abused and raped as a child & has never been an apologist.
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You haven’t been paying attention, Dan.
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I've been trying to. If you can help me see what I'm missing. Your original point stands, there are plenty of good reasons to remove RMS. There have been for years.
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