I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny. Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!" NOPE.https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 …
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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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Sometimes an idea is bigger than a person, and we shouldn't encourage guilt-by-association. Apart from that, the proprietary world very likely isn't any better. Just needs someone to start digging... It's a problem pertaining to the whole of society.
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Did you read that twitter thread? There was nothing but guilt by association. Some can praise Jeffrey Epstein's capacity for thought, without in any way vouching for his character or condoning his actions. History is consistent; always be wary of prats on moral high horses
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