Return of Stallman to FSF sparks outrage among open-source and free software leaders
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The last finally caught up with him when RMS defended the behavior of the late Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and associate of notorious billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "The announcement was unplanned and I expected to have more time for things I wanted to say and do first, but no, I dont think it was the right decision by the FSF, whose mission is needed but which keeps falling short of fulfilling it," concluded Walsh. Fisher added, "While RMS started the free software movement and the GNU GPL was a groundbreaking document, the community still has a right to hold him to account for his abhorrent actions and harmful speech. Young continued, "The thing that randos who have never had to actually work with rms dont understand is that MANY people who deeply respected him tried to help him learn to not objectify women, shout over others at Libreplanet as if it was his birthday party, stop sh*t like emacs virgins. Matthew Garrett, a well-known Linux kernel developer and former FSF board member, tweeted, "The idea that someone who does enough "good work" earns a pass for inappropriate behavior is pervasive, and fosters environments where abusers can prosper.