Richard Stallman Resigned from FSF, 2019-09-16

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

2019-09-13 Social Justice gang attacking Richard Stallman now. rms read news on Epstein, found twisted wording, criticized it. Then, some sjw blogged it, send to sjgang media Vice. More twisted words. Now it becomes rms is for child rap.

rms 下台了。被白左斗下来了。

It began with this piece. A woman reads a piece of email by rms. She got angry, and wrote a blog that wants rms removed.

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〔“Remove Richard Stallman” By Selam G. At https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 〕

Selam G complaints that rms wrote a email that's offensive.

Here's rms's remail (it criticizes twisted wording of a news report.)

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rms email on Minsky, ~2019-09-11

Selam G sent her complaint to Vice News, one of the pro-sjw propaganda site.

Here's Vice news report. Note the title, it twisted rms's meaning.

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Vice Motherboard attack on rms 2019-09-13 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-described-epstein-victims-as-entirely-willing

This is picked up by other leftist news media, such as Daily Beast.

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Daily Beast rms 2019-09-13 https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-defends-epstein-victims-were-entirely-willing

RMS Resigns

3 days later, on 2019-09-16 RMS says he resigned from CSAIL, on his blog. FSF also announced that RMS resigned from FSF, on the same day.

(CSAIL is Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. RMS is visiting scientist at CSAIL)

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RMS resignation from CSAIL 2019-09-16
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FSF announce RMS resign 2019-09-16

twitter FSF announcing RMS resign 〔https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1173780935910797312 accessed: 2019-09-23〕 . Looking at it, lots of sjw people there.

After Resign

RedHat, 2019-09-18

RedHat open letter to FSF 2019-09-18
〔Open Letter to the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors By Redhat. At https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-letter-free-software-foundation-board-directors 〕

Steven Levy, 2019-09-18

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〔Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd By Steven Levy. At https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of-the-clueless-nerd/ 〕

Thomas Bushnell, 2019-09-18

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〔A reflection on the departure of RMS By Thomas Bushnell. At https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84 〕

Thomas Bushnell was a maintainer of Hurd OS in 1990s.

GNU Projects Want RMS Out, 2019-10-07

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GNU Projects Want RMS Out, dated 2019-10-07, screenshot 2019-10-10 https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

RMS Final Interview as FSF President, 2019-09-17

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Am looking into whether rms resign from fsf is forced. Still undecided. My guess is likely, but perhaps with undisclosed benefits. Note, this is really a heavy issue. It's not just sjw. Billion $ n its people r involved.

another interesting thing is that i find very few people defending rms, unexpectedly from what i know of fsf fanatics n emacs diehards since 1998. i think most do not dare to say things.

Articles Supporting RMS

rms resign sterling-archermedes 2019-09-24 kvg9r
chronical of events and analysis https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html
free software force scott 2019-09-24 jqd6r
on rms resign Abhishek Prakash 2019-09-17 4hn9r
rms resign Andrew St Laurent 2019-09-23 2cmn9
Thomas Lord 2019-09-15 dmqkb
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2019-09/msg00001.html
Rms Announcing He is Back in FSF 2021-03-26

Notes from Xah Lee

In my opinion, RMS did nothing wrong here.

I consider that from now on FSF is just going to be a puppet state.