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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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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Hey
@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 -
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.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 -
I’m very interested in hearing a response from
@conservancy and@o0karen0o given the organizations close association with the fsf. Bradley M. Kuhn is on the fsf board and President of@conservancy . We give them $$$$ which is going to end now.3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes -
The statements relayed in the medium post are reprehensible. There is indeed no formal relationship between FSF and Conservancy as others have said but for my part, I'm removing my only remaining formal personal connection right now - my FSF membership. We'll be following this.
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