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Is this the first edition? There is a third edition, so why not post it instead?

https://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf

One guess might be that the forward for the third edition was provided by Jacob Appelbaum, who turned out to be not such a cool guy.

I’m glad the version with the Lessig forward was posted (though I should probably read the new essays, too).

> who turned out to be not such a cool guy

all I could find was allegations of sexual assault which could not be proven? Or was that comment about something else?

Without talking about this specific case (I've never heard of that guy) sexual assault is basically impossible to "prove" without clear video recordings. :/

I don't want to get involved in this, but none of his 'victims' have ever reported it to any authorities. It's basically a social media smear campaign. They even registered a website under his name with fanfic stories.

So guilty until proven innocent?

It's better than "never guilty because proof is impossible".

RMS should be the focus here. If the forward-writer is the focus, for whatever reason, it's not a good forward.

Idk. Maybe make a 3.001 or something like that with a different forward? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or maybe a backward.

> who turned out to be not such a cool guy.

Only if you believe anonymous smear campaigns. None of the alleged victims ever made any effort to start a proper investigation and one of the claimed victims (some of the stories were written by people who thought they witnessed something) came forward saying that she was in fact not a victim and that the allegations were all bullcrap.

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