Roman Mamedov wrote on 3/26/21 11:10 AM:
Could be important to note that no harassment allegations were ever aimed at RMS himself, he's just being attacked for posting a personal opinion about unrelated events.
The mattress on the floor of his MIT office and the 30 year history of him hitting on and creeping on women beg to differ. His nature was so obvious and so well known that multiple whisper networks sprung up to protect young MIT students from him -- including telling new female undergrads and grad students to ensure that they never, ever, were placed in a room alone with him. They were literally warning people to not even venture into the *hallway* corridor where his office was located. One woman's recent story involved her being accidentally the last person left at a table with RMS after a group outing to a buffet meal at an indian restaurant - as soon as RMS was alone with her he told her that he'd commit suicide and she would be responsible for his death if she did not agree to date him.
This is the type of creep responsible for driving people out of institutions, scientific fields and academia in general. How many woman did he drive out of open source or computer science due to his *behavior* over multiple decades?
Not even sure why I'm typing this. The people arguing in bad faith that RMS is being cancelled only for opinions and not actions are the same ones who tend to argue that harassment does not exist unless there was an arrest, trial and guilty plea.
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