Accusations are not enough, especially when most of them are transparently false.
Yes they enough. Figureheads and leaders live and die on accusations. RMS may have been correct, but he was so without any thought as to the wider implication of how his words would be taken. Lock him in a room where he can contribute to society using his brilliant mind in the proper way. Don't promote him to a leadership position which demands someone have a good grasp of public relations, RMS has none.
Accusations are not enough, especially when most of them are transparently false.
Yes they enough. Figureheads and leaders live and die on accusations.
Bullshit. Just complete bullshit. You can not have a functioning society based on the idea that any accusation, no matter how fanciful or easily disproved, means that someone must be removed from all public-facing activity.
I think you're missing the point. The accusation here is not disproven, people *were* upset at the comments, that is the accusation. That is 100% proven by the resulting outcry. That Stallman's comments which upset people were correct is completely irrelevant. In a position of leadership PR is far more important than being right, and that is how society functions, because being right doesn't make something less painful.
Leaders don't exist to autistically speak truths, hell those people typically make horrib
I think you're missing the point. The accusation here is not disproven, people *were* upset at the comments, that is the accusation. That is 100% proven by the resulting outcry. That Stallman's comments which upset people were correct is completely irrelevant.
We have people who were upset. That is not in itself a crime; indeed I'm happy if certain people are offended by certain things.
The offended people have, having passed judgement on RMS, turned to the general public and said "isn't this an offensive thing?" Well, generally speaking, it's not. As a society we can not afford to go down the route of never offending anyone because then you tolerate everything and suddenly you don't have a society anymore, just a load of people living together in fear.
For example
PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the
solution set.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
EFF Puts its finger on it (Score:5, Insightful)
"serious accusations of misconduct"
Accusations are not enough, especially when most of them are transparently false.
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Accusations are not enough, especially when most of them are transparently false.
Yes they enough. Figureheads and leaders live and die on accusations. RMS may have been correct, but he was so without any thought as to the wider implication of how his words would be taken. Lock him in a room where he can contribute to society using his brilliant mind in the proper way. Don't promote him to a leadership position which demands someone have a good grasp of public relations, RMS has none.
Re:EFF Puts its finger on it (Score:4, Insightful)
Accusations are not enough, especially when most of them are transparently false.
Yes they enough. Figureheads and leaders live and die on accusations.
Bullshit. Just complete bullshit. You can not have a functioning society based on the idea that any accusation, no matter how fanciful or easily disproved, means that someone must be removed from all public-facing activity.
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I think you're missing the point. The accusation here is not disproven, people *were* upset at the comments, that is the accusation. That is 100% proven by the resulting outcry. That Stallman's comments which upset people were correct is completely irrelevant. In a position of leadership PR is far more important than being right, and that is how society functions, because being right doesn't make something less painful.
Leaders don't exist to autistically speak truths, hell those people typically make horrib
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I think you're missing the point. The accusation here is not disproven, people *were* upset at the comments, that is the accusation. That is 100% proven by the resulting outcry. That Stallman's comments which upset people were correct is completely irrelevant.
We have people who were upset. That is not in itself a crime; indeed I'm happy if certain people are offended by certain things.
The offended people have, having passed judgement on RMS, turned to the general public and said "isn't this an offensive thing?" Well, generally speaking, it's not. As a society we can not afford to go down the route of never offending anyone because then you tolerate everything and suddenly you don't have a society anymore, just a load of people living together in fear.
For example