From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 07:20:28 -0700 Subject: [COFF] Stallman resigns under pressure from CSAIL and FSF. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20190917142028.GG2046@mcvoy.com> 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 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > COFF mailing list > > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > > > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm