From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:23:08 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Stallman resigns under pressure from CSAIL and FSF. In-Reply-To: <20190917142028.GG2046@mcvoy.com> References: <20190917142028.GG2046@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: +1 ᐧ On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:20 AM Larry McVoy 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 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: