Yesterday's Man: The Fall of Richard Stallman | Linux Today

Yesterday’s Man: The Fall of Richard Stallman

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Bruce Byfield
Sep 24, 2019

Everyone has been talking about last week’s resignation by Richard Stallman’s from MIT and the Free Software Foundation over his comment that one of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims willingly prostituted herself. Why should I be different? It’s not Stallman’s first mis-step in the sexual arena, but the comment and his reactions to the response suggest that he should have gone long ago.

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Bruce Byfield

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