[COFF] Stallman resigns under pressure from CSAIL and FSF.

[Clem Cole]

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:20 AM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> The interesting thing is that RMS has been saying stuff kids can agree
> to sex with an adult for 15 years or more.  It's in his blog.
>
> I think the reason he is out now is that he defended Epstein and the
> Epstein stuff has a decent chance at taking down the administration and
> some powerful professors like Minsky.  I can believe there is pressure
> on those folks to give back the money and resign for the good of the
> institution.  But those people don't want to leave, they want this to
> blow over and RMS was bringing more unwanted attention.
>
> If it really was just about his views, his views have been consistent
> for a long time and MIT didn't care.  Kinda sleazy that they are booting
> him to save their own skins but I have no empathy for RMS, I have kids.
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:00:26AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > It's interesting what finally got him.   His bad behavior has been
> around a
> > long time.
> > ???
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:56 AM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Richard Stallman, known colloquially as 'RMS', has resigned from MIT's
> > > Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Free
> > > Software Foundation, after making comments defending Jeffrey Epstein,
> the
> > > late sexual predator. Those comments sparked wide-spread outrage
> across the
> > > MIT community and beyond.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September_2019_(Resignation)
> > > https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
> > >
> > >         - Dan C.
> > >
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