Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as applied to the goalposts set by RMS defenders
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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as applied to the goalposts set by RMS defenders
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Defenses of Stallman, in summary:
He didn't do anything wrong.
And if he did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, it's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not his fault.
And if it was, he didn't mean it.
And if he did, he was right. -
Drew DeVaultreplied to Drew DeVault on last edited by [email protected]
Feel free to browse the discussions around the web and identify which of these defenses is being employed in each comment. It's "fun"!
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@drewdevault don’t forget “hey that was a really long time ago don’t worry about it!”
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@jacqueline another fun one is "this is entirely dismissable because it was published anonymously" coexisting with comments calling for violence and harassment targeting the authors
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@drewdevault genuinely curious why you chose to publish it anonymously.
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@drewdevault I'm at maybe a little of some of those things, maybe some of that shit was somewhat more acceptable/tolerable back then but we've grown up a lot since and he should just GTFO and not come back. I've seen other projects with "toxic founder syndrome" [no this is not a Mullenweg reference], and no good came from keeping them around — for essentially sentimental reasons — while the project itself suffered.
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@drewdevault Thank you for sharing the stallman report. At least now RMS drama is much clearer. I guess you can somewhat appreciate the dude for kickstarting GPL, but placing him as the face of the FOSS community is highly dangerous to the whole FOSS idea.
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@drewdevault I'll go with the first one. The whole report is about him having unpopular opinions. Just another nothingburger.
