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If the allegations that he kept a shag matters in his office are true, i don't think you can actually find a defensible position for this.

I don't like the outrage culture and twitter witchuhnts either but this seems to be more than digging up a bad joke someone said 10 years ago.

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RMS made his office his residence for many years, and slept in it. The mattress made sense as it was his home. It was not there for untoward reasons as people seem to be implying.

Exactly this. People don’t understand the amount of dedication RMS put into his work. I’m sick of this shit. I’m so fed up.

Hence I said a shag mattress, and allegations, I don't know how real or not those stories are.

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