If he committed a crime then he should suffer consequences, but this kind of politicking and posturing is unproductive.
You’ll end up with spineless yes people who don’t push back and also do nothing but do PR (virtue signal the latest fad).
You’ll end up with spineless yes people who don’t push back and also do nothing but do PR (virtue signal the latest fad).
Yup. And if you haven’t noticed, that is exactly who is running almost every major institution in Western society currently.
The enlightenment has died not with a bang but with a whimper.
Do they get to call for the management to get fired? Maybe their competitors get to call them out.
I mean the result of firings is measurably worse than being weirded out by an anti social guy.
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I disagree.
RMS is (much like Joseph Ratzinger, for a different religious movement) much better as a chief theologian, theorist of doctrine, and internal enforcer of and exhortationist to doctrinal purity within the Church than an ambassador or evangelist to those not already deeply committed.
Literally no person, anywhere, regardless of background, history, technical capability, history with free software, networking or speaking ability, is capable of acting as ambassador for the Free Software movment in the same capacity? Only RMS?
You realize he's a mortal human, right? Because if your premise is that no one else can ever be worthy to replace him, your conclusion must be that the movement will die with him.
Being the person who comes up with an idea doesn't have anything to do with being good at selling the idea to other people.
If he committed something, and this something was actually a crime and not just something that some people don't like, then it is up to the court to decide about it, not Twitter mob.