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Stallman was 'cancelled' in 2019. He announced his return at FSF yesterday, though he is not the President of FSF anymore. I hope the 'cancel mob' spares him this time.
  • ndarwincorn
    153·
    4 years ago

    It’s always accusations, not a clear-cut case.

    With Stallman, pretending it’s not clear cut is ridiculous.

    Some receipts.

    Probably the most damning one:

    • In a 2007 interview, he said:

    I don’t have any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.

    A number of women have contributed to GCC, including:

    • Janis Johnson maintains the test suite and has been a contributor since 2001
    • Sandra Loosemore is the lead author of the GNU Library Reference Manual;[3] RMS is listed as her co-author.
    • Dorit Nuzman made major contributions to loop scheduling and vectorization.
    • Carolyn Tice is also mentioned as a contributor.
    • gohqoi
      43·
      4 years ago

      With Stallman, pretending it’s not clear cut is ridiculous.

      The “not a clear-cut case” referred to Minsky and not Stallman. What are you claiming that Stallman is obviously guilty of? Because the discussion was on his alleged endorsement of child abuse and sexual assault and you linked to articles which make accusations based on assumptions and further dilute it with describing how disgusting and asocial he is. Your highlighted point in no way supports the claim of him endorsing such behaviors and comes from an interview, in which Stallman also states that:

      I know most of the maintainers only through email, which means that I don’t know whether they are male or female unless their names show me. I just looked at the list: one maintainer is probably female, and a few others have names that might be male or female.

      Yes, saying that no women contributed to GCC is false and wrong but it’s not a reason to exclude him from the movement or a justification for the CancelStallman campaign.