In defense of Stallman
https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stallman/

Petition: "Journalists" apologize
https://www.change.org/p/journalists-to-stop-the-persecution-of-stallman-and-apologize-publicly

Against sfconservancy
https://fsforce.noblogs.org/

In-depth review
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/

@danielst wow this post is so much toxic.

@danielst Elaborating a bit...

The removal of RMS from MIT and the FSF was sad, but necessary. RMS is the single most critical person in Free Software, but when a person is in this kind of power, they have more responsibility to use measured words, especially in public.

RMS's behavior has been problematic for *years*, and I've privately had conversations with him about it. Many of us have, because we didn't want it to get to this point.

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@danielst I've seen him kiss women's hands without prompting, continue to hit on women even once they expressed disinterest (even women where they were obligated to be there by job).

I've seen him be uncaring and even (unthinkingly) cruel to wait staff.

I tried talking to him about these actions. I also talked to him about his views regarding consent and minors back in 2001.

None of these seem to have worked and the behavior continued.

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@danielst And while his point about the term "assult" may be intellectually debatable, the insensivity of bringing it up at all is not excusable. Even if it were- no apology has been offered.

So organizations must do the right thing, and they did.

As for Conservancy... Conservancy is *the most important organization in Free Software today*, period. They're more important than the FSF or the FSFE. They fight for Free Software and support Free Software in ways no one else does right now.

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