Enlarge / RMS at LibrePlanet 2019, roughly six months earlier than his resignation from the FSF’s Board of Administrators. (credit score: Ruben Rodriguez)
The Free Software program Basis’s board of administrators issued a press release at this time concerning the controversial return of Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to its ranks, alongside a press release of Stallman’s personal.
The controversy in short
RMS has by no means been identified for private tact or diplomacy, however his 2019 choice to defend MIT pc science Professor Marvin Minsky was the beam which broke the camel’s again. Minsky was a someday affiliate of infamous pedophile and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein; Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre acknowledged beneath deposition that she had been directed to sleep with Minsky when she was 17.
Within the try to defend Minsky, RMS declared it “morally absurd” to name statutory rape “rape,” and he spun an elaborate situation concerning the probability that Giuffre—whom RMS had by no means met—would have “appeared fully keen” to Minsky.
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