I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny.

Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!"

NOPE.
Remove Richard Stallman
And everyone else horrible in tech.

Stallman was the founder - and is STILL the President and Board Chair - of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF is enormously influential. Among other activities, it publishes the software licenses used by much of the 'copyleft' world - the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL licenses.

I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.

I'm done. The free software community looks the other way while they build their empires on licenses that sustain Stallman's power.

Hey @fsf
 - fire your President and Board Chair. He just sent an email to the MIT computer science community claiming that sex with an underaged girl is not rape.

I know you know about him and his 'problematic' ideas already.

Just letting you know that WE KNOW.

And also, @fsf
, while we're at it, lemme let you in on something else:

Your refusal to part ways with him - despite well-known incidents that have pushed women & others out of free software for decades - might have been ok 10 years ago. Maybe even 2 years ago.

It's not ok now.

Let's see - who's on the @fsf
 board of directors? Could we count on them to do the right thing?

Ok, first name on the list is Gerald J. Sussman....oh.
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𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈
@H0tdish
 · Aug 27
MIT-CSAIL; heart of com$ci/infosec, we sadly find ppl we respect, allegedly supporting a man who sexually assaulted minors. :/

MIT Gerald Sussman:

“Jeffrey Epstein is one of the most amazing, interesting, & brilliant people that I know".

https://web.archive.org/web/20101112051649/http://www.jeffreyepsteinscience.com/testimonials/

Second name on the list is Geoffrey Knauth - @gknauth
 - who retweeted a hideous Bret Stephens NYT editorial about  how all this 'liberalism' is eroding 'excellence' https://nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/university-campus-diveristy-inclusion-free-speech.html


Not holding my breath for either of these gents.
Opinion | Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Excellence
A former dean of the Yale Law School sounds a warning.
nytimes.com

Ok third name on the list is @HenryPoole
 - seems to be friends with child rapist apologist @lessig
 - also tweeted this approvingly https://twitter.com/jgbarah/status/832282512818741248


It's not looking good
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Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona
@jgbarah
 · Feb 16, 2017
Recognition for rms at the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit (no joking about this) #lfosls
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The fourth @fsf
 board member is Benjamin Mako Hill - @makoshark
 - seems super involved with Wikipedia, which is also known as an extremely hostile community towards women

I guess I shouldn't continue to be surprised but I keep hoping
😬

Who else is on the board of the @fsf
? Let's see - Bradley M. Kuhn @bkuhn_ebb_org
, Kat Walsh @mindspillage
, and Alexandre Oliva https://fsf.org/news/alexandre-oliva-joins-free-software-foundation-board-of-directors
.

Not much info on them. But who knows?! Maybe these folks will do the right thing and get rid of Stallman.

It's up to you, folks - you're the board of the @fsf
. You can keep Stallman and alienate everyone else, or you can do your job.
#cancelstallman

@bkuhn_ebb_org
 @mindspillage
 @makoshark
 @gknauth
 @HenryPoole

Like clockwork, a @fsf
 board member, @gknauth
 is up in my mentions demanding "proof."

YOU are on the board. YOU are responsible for investigating. Yet YOU are in my mentions making other people do your homework for you.
Dear @fsf
 board members,

If you cannot remove Stallman from your board, your only remaining option with any moral integrity is to resign.

We’re all waiting.
We see you.
And we’ll see what happens.

@bkuhn_ebb_org
 @mindspillage
 @makoshark
 @gknauth
 @HenryPoole


#cancelstallman