Have Bill gates in a sleep over, who will tell you the secrets to screwing people over and spyware tricks
or dining with the foot fungus eating master, Richard Stallman, who will explain in great detail about the origins of GNU and why that finnish guy made GNU largely small in the grand scheme of things.
I only know Bill.
Bill was friends with Epstein after he was convicted for pedophilia they even had sleepovers in Bills mansion.
I hope Bill wasn’t encouraging of him, but I wouldn’t blame them just for being friends and having sleepovers (as long as they didn’t bring anyone).
Bill was on the Epstein list
Well crud.
Stallman would have been jealous. https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html
Hes also spoken up about the inherent power imbalances between an adult and a minor. Maybe read what he has to say from his blog than reading what other people have cherry picked for you to create a narrative.
It literally links to his blog numerous times, but keep playing defense. It always makes the open source community look great to continue their associations with him.
Go read the rest of his blog then and come back. Youd at least see this man is neurodivergent as hell.
So am I. Being neurodivergent doesn’t excuse making people feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your presence because of your comments about sex with children and inappropriate behavior toward women.
He was a large contributer to the open software movement. That’s fair. But there’s no need to idolize him or anyone else when there are plenty of other capable people who dont behave this way.
Good for you but not all neurodivergence is the same. Assuming that is silly af.
Its more the principle that people can grow and their opinions can grow and change over time. People can make people accidentally feel uncomfortable due to their awkwardness.
Has this person actually done anything harmful or influenced anything harmful apart from some bad takes. I don’t think so. I dont think hes a good face for the FSF. But i also dont think he should be exiled.
It seems like you didn’t read the link I posted because the point is to demonstrate that he clearly hasn’t changed his opinion in any meaningful way. Using neurodivergence as an excuse for disgusting behavior is also silly af. His presence is harmful because of what it signals to people who have to work with him. That his views and inappropriate behavior (especially toward women) will be tolerated. It isn’t just ‘bad takes’, its sexually harassing people and normalizing pedophilia. Its very strange you seem to be so against bigotry in other threads but have a soft spot for this particular sex pest.