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I would second Uniqlo, and also suggest GAP. But honestly I am not really aware of either of their ethical records, but have found their clothes to be a good balance of price and quality, and they are about the only shops I can find as a Mid-20s male where you can buy good quality 'foundational' items, rather than fashion fads.
sigh I just wrote a screed ripping this apart but seriously, no-one who liked it will have their minds changed by me.

Instead, I’ll make a point that should concern anyone who actually cares about Free Software and not dragging it into the culture war: the article claims Free Software has a bus factor of one (or possibly zero now). That had better not be the case. And if it is the case, now is the time to do something about it.
Basically so the founders and investors can cash out. Investors put money in to get a bigger return, and founders may have shares worth a lot on paper, but that's not money until someone else buys them.
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>Nobody has suggested he be fined or jailed. His actions just make him unqualified to be a leader. The other people in those organization do get to have a say too you know.

Exactly. There's no need to pretend, as some other comments in here are doing, that he's being hauled off by some sort of cultural police force.
> because they were powerful and could easily silence their accusers.

this is certainly not the case for Stallman, as proven by the continuous stream of angry criticism that he has been receiving from many people through the years. It does not seem that RMS held any real power over anybody (except maybe for the handful of FSF employees). The fact that this criticism, which has already existed openly, has had a real effect on the FSF and MIT is obviously due to pressures from higher-ups, not from twitter pawns.
Yes, I too would like everyone who I disagree with to be removed from my industry.

That was sarcasm, because apparently in 2019 that's an acceptable thing to say with a straight face.
>He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again.

Please elaborate?
I disagree with a lot in that post.

Just because some people made Stallman out to be worse doesn't mean his position wasn't still bad. This issue has been debated ad nauseum so I won't go into details.

Instead I think it's more interesting to talk about the author's proposition that the open source movement wouldn't be as successful as it is without Stallman. And with this I strongly disagree. I don't think we ever got the vision of open source stallman wanted. We didn't end up with a thriving open source environment. We ended up with something that hackers contribute to in their spare time, with corporations benefiting immensely and giving back pennies. I know some people feel inspired by Stallman and the things he wrote. But honestly, his main ideas like being wary of walled-gardens are things that someone or another would've mentioned.

He was interesting, but I don't think was someone that was crucial for many of the benefits we have today. And I want to emphasize that this isn't a slight against him. I just mean that the stuff he's done isn't enough to excuse his terrible behavior. Like washington founded america so his greatness still burns bright even with his actions on slavery. Columbus on the other hand doesn't deserve the accolades he got especially in light of the horrible things he did even if he did discover the new land.
> In short: Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments

No, they were not "technically correct." Neither Stallman nor the author of this post are experts on sexual assault, and neither has the requisite knowledge to even judge whether the statements were technically correct or not. If people are too lazy to learn about an issue in some depth, they should just shut up and listen to the experts. And if they don't want to listen to the experts, they should at least study the issue in some depth. I'm sure neither Stallman nor the author of this post would be as forgiving towards equally clueless, equally stupid comments made about programming by people who have no clear idea of what it is.

Also, the problem with making those comments, correct or otherwise, wasn't one of tact. That the author and Stallman don't understand the actual, direct, real harm in an authority figure making such comments in a public workplace forum could be either due to innocent ignorance or willful ignorance, but it is ignorance. And if, in the case of Stallman, he continues to cause this harm after being warned, and doesn't wish to apologize, and this comes after decades of inappropriate workplace behavior, then a sane world would show him the door.

In any event, like a lawyer who doesn't know the law, the author doesn't address, nor seem to understand, the issue at the heart of the matter, and puts himself in the same position of ignorance as Stallman. And so the post isn't so much a defense as it is yet another diatribe on how weird, confusing and even unfair certain subjects can seem to people who don't understand them nor really wish to. Thank you, but we know that. Stallman, or anyone for that matter, deserves better than this Rudy Giuliani "defense."
"He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again."

You are making me feel unwelcome on this forum and your comment is unprofessional.

> Yes, because of people like you, Geoff. When people like Stallm ....

It's because of people like you that allegations ruin people's life.

When there's nothing to prove, you are talking about what could have
Renewables are about 35% of the electricity production in the U.K. (they are much smaller of the total energy consumption due to heating)

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The overall trend is that renewables and gas would hit the 45-45% mark soon enough for electricity production since coal plants are closing and almost no new nuclear plants are being built, and existing one will shut down.
Ignoring a legal age of consent, refusing to accept the accepted definitions of assault and rape, and claiming they were actually willing are emphatically not just "socially awkward".
> How popular would gnu be if it had someone who was better at communication involved?

Also, how popular would gnu be if the US had a copyright reform, or if we lived in a fairy world with unicorns? There is no point to such questions: if there ever was a person who could be a worthy replacement of rms at the helm of FSF, they preferred to remain invisible. So the most plausible scenario is not "someone like rms but better", it's "nobody remotely as good at all".
That's just Apple being Apple though. You can buy a fast SSD on the open market for $1/10GB now. 500GB for $50 is the sweet spot.
> because they're afraid of being called liars or censors

lies where told. There are plenty people afraid of pointing this out, lest they be called an "apologist" for something. Is that because of "people like you, Barrin92"?
To add insult to injury, the author of the first libelous article against Stallman works for a US government contractor in company developing drones and other killing machines... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21090851
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>We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.

I'm sure the people doing those experiments also shared the conviction that they were smarter and more objective than people in past ages.
That is truly beautiful. I already loved APL, from a distance as it were, but this gives me renewed respect for it.
Can you cite some specific evidence for your specific claims?
It's more like "avoid learning novelties" than "avoid learning". Give technologies time to be proven, for their strengths and weaknesses to become known. Wrangling the cutting edge is its own set of skills.

It is phrased a bit ambiguously for shock value, I think.
Jury of peers is for criminal prosecution, not job performance assessment, which is closer to civil cases, in which preponderance of the evidence is the standard.
I think there are some people who really want to do research more than anything else. They should do PhDs. People without this compulsion are probably better off doing something else.

I was joking with a friend the other day about interview questions which pick out the people most likely to succeed at research. The consensus was that this is the best discriminator:

"Do you ever wish that all your friends and family would just vanish so you could get more work done?"
Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion...

Inclusiveness -- but let's ostracize the non-conforming aspie...

Fairness -- but let's fire people or make them resign from unrelated positions for their personal opinions, because obviously all of a person's life should serve as a big PR, and god forbid they don't play the role 24/7. Someone might call them for it on Twitter, and what could their employee/organization do other than fire them? (in the "Land of the free" nonetheless)

Not to mention the blatant conformity and blandness -- punishing experimentation, personality, eccentricity, being the devil's advocate, controversiality, and, worse of all, being 'unprofessional' (as if the FSF is something akin to 1970s IBM)...

First they came for Patch Adams...

The current environment rewards the worst kind of scum: holier-than-thou hypocritical tell-tales and people who enjoy yielding power over others by drawing lynch-mobs.

I have wrote against Epstein here in several threads, but I could have lunch with a person who has controversial opinions on the matter like Stallman. People like those who finger-pointed and cheered on the personal consequences on Stallman, I'd prefer to live in another universe from.

Are you happy now? Justice for Epstein's victims served? (on someone who never even met Epstein)

Speak up now, or don't bother to cry crocodile tears and set up the "black ribbon" when we eventually lose Stallman, and tell stories of how he inspired you, etc...
What _about_ BSD?

If my understanding is correct, BSD only started becoming free software in 1989 with the release of Net/1, and even then large chunks of the codebase were not free software.

GNU, on the other hand, kicked off some years before, in 1983.
> Stallman defended Minsky by saying it wasn't rape and it was assault. To mount this defence Stallman had to ignore common English definitions for both words, and he had to ignore the legal definitions of both words.

I disagree on both accounts. Rape, to derive its moral severity, requires either intent or negligence. I realize there's a meme about "she told me she was 18" but that does fall under the negligence angle - the implication is "he should have known". (And Minksy did know, or at least suspected.) But drop into a situation where there was no way for them to know, and at least to my intuition the moral badness disappears.

I think there's just a level of ... the sexual event alone creates a certain mass of moral badness, and this mass has to go somewhere, so it's usually pinned on the older partner. However, I'm fully willing to pin it on Epstein in this case if it has to go anywhere. And if that isn't possible - well, maybe it can't be put anywhere. I think this is a social/moral difference; I come from a society where even the law acknowledges that sometimes there's morally bad events that have no guilty party at all. If a mentally disabled person rapes someone because they have no concept of consent, whose moral fault is it? Where do we put the blame? To me, it's obvious that we put it with the people and structures that were supposed to have prevented the event but failed to. If the event was provoked, we put it with the people who provoked it. In this case, that person is unambiguously Epstein, who was the source and cause of all the moral badness in play. This is not always possible, but conveniently in this case it is.
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Do you think Richard Stallman was "powerful" enough to "easily silence" accusers?
To Linus Torvalds?
Wasn't he just temporarily absent for one release due to being 'abusive on pull requests'?

Because AFAIK he did not get as much backlash as RMS is getting at the moment, nor did he lose any position somewhere.
He could also just not give away the $50
With regards to "Avoid Learning Anything New" I would be very surprised if Pete Shirley follows that advice when it comes to things actually relevant to his job. People who avoid learning anything new don't get to be senior researchers at Nvidia or have the following publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nHx9IgYAAAAJ...

I guess what he's trying to say is Avoid Learning Anything New if it's ancillary to your job, and instead focus on your core competences.
> He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again.

How do you know this? How do you know that he deliberately tries to make women uncomfortable? I don't think any women is comfortable near a fat, bearded virgin that eats things off his foot, but to accuse him of deliberately making women uncomfortable implies that he knows some of his actions are off limits and he's deliberately crossing the line. You're just attributing malice when there's a simple answer - he's socially awkward, he doesn't know what the limits are.
>Yes, I too would like everyone who I disagree with to be removed from my industry

So, like those people you seem to applaud did to Stallman?

>apparently in 2019 that's an acceptable thing to say with a straight face

Oh, the irony...
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Only place in industry that requires a PhD is Data Science. How interesting what you do there is depends on the company. In most cases as a Data Scientist you won't be doing much coding. Otherwise if you want to go in any other software development you don't need PhD, because as you said you don't want to be a researcher. That being said its very likely for your 9-5 programming job to be very boring and not what you expected so I suggest you don't completely rule out researching, because it probably won't get any more interesting than that.
Can you please read the thread yourself and point out to specific instances you are referring to? Because there is a lot of false information in this thread, like so:

> Last week, on a private MIT mailing list, Richard Stallman argued that a sex trafficking survivor may have "willingly" presented herself, and thus Minksey hadn't really committed sexual assault. That being coerced by Epstein made it not rape.

Which is flat out wrong, and something that the article here explicitly demonstrates why it's false. Did you read the "Defense of Richard Stallman" article presented here in this thread?
Agreed. If Stallman was a charming, charismatic, handsome guy with a square jaw and good hair the whole conversation would probably have a different lens placed on it.
And he did none of these.
A thing being impossible or highly cost prohibitive kind of hampers demand for it, wouldn't you think?
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> His actions just make him unqualified to be a leader.

So you're saying that the only people qualified to be "a leader" are the ones who subscribe to your particular flavour of groupthink and no other? Nice thought policing there.
I'm voting you down because you don't give specifics.

If you have something to share, put the effort to be specific. Now you are just throwing general accusations.
> If we can't, as a group, tolerate awkwardness, we are very much down the rabbit hole of mandatory social conformity.

Which seem to go against all goals of diversity and inclusiveness. If we strive for more diverse community we have accept quirks of some people. Only in purely homogeneous group everybody can be comfortable and not offended.
You're not clearing things up; you are contributing to the misinformation. Your unsubstantiated claim that "Stallman defended Minsky" really doesn't help, unless, perhaps, it helps train people to ignore what they read on the Internet about such matters.

Here's what a proper newspaper wrote on the subject:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/17/mit-scient...
I read that thread before. The only "creep" I got out of it was that he was an awkward wannabe-dater.

And that thread contains misleading or outright false information, so I am honestly not sure what of it is truth-worthy. Do you have secondary sources, or is this internet rumor all?
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> Why is it a great business and an initiative to be applauded if it is about excluding men and a scandal if it is about excluding women?

Because the one aims to reduce an imbalance in the workforce, which leads to a particular section being under represented.

Thwe other aims to increase an imbalance in the workforce, which leads to a particular section being under represented.
It's more their reputation as a disease vector that scares me. We don't have very many ticks in NZ, and currently (let's see what climate change brings) no insect disease vectors, so not at all used to them.

I suspect you're not worried about them for the same reason I'm not worried about bovine TB - you know how to handle it.
In addition to wanting to work in a steel mill, you'd have to want to be the only woman in a steel mill, which adds an additional layer of difficulties to what is already a difficult job. Likewise men in unpleasant female-coded jobs like cleaning.

I was a male typist for a while when I was at university. I found the weird experience of breaking gender roles quite entertaining, but it was definitely an addition to the usual do-work-and-get-paid deal. And secretarial work is not intrinsically unpleasant, so I was already doing better than most people in my position.

FWIW there are women on highway construction sites in the UK. Not many (construction as a whole is very male) but not none. I think the only industry which is entirely male here is mining, and that's because of a 19th Century law prohibiting women and children from doing it.
Are you supposed to keep going until you go back to the same pair? So you would go C, A, B, D, B?
Claiming they were actually willing and claiming they presented themselves as actually willing are two very different things. These are very dangerous accusations you are throwing around - you might do well to stick to what he actually said and wrote.
It's not clear to me. Were those people paid or volunteers?
> "they think I will in the future violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that hasn't been made yet"

Seems like a code of conduct issue?
You, too - stop lying. People have been asking for documentation in every thread about this and it never shows up. Stop fucking lying.
Having a view that the law is wrong is not a crime, and nor should it be.

If it were, who needs legislature?
His creepy, shirtless "get on my mattress" calls to female undergrads at MIT register as more than being awkward or autistic. That alone should be unacceptable behavior for faculty.
Maybe, but maybe they would have other tools, better tools, built by the people his behaviour, and the behaviour of people like him, have driven from the industry before they got a chance to have the impact that people like him seem to assume is a right.

They ware free to develop whatever they want.
If they do not wish to be a part of the GNU project that is fine, make your own project and develop whatever you want.

If people out there were willing to put in the years to create better software than what the GNU project provides than they would have done so.

And a lot of great free software has been created outside of GNU.

It is like saying that unless you get commit rights to the Linux kernel, or if you didn't partake in Linux development you could not write software. Maybe Linus called you an idiot.

Your argument is that if Linux hadnt written the kernel we would have had a better operating system today.

Being a part of a project is not a right, it is a privilege.
Writing free software is something anyone can do, and they can do it a lot better because of GNU/Linux. Just do it.
It seems the damage is done and cannot be reversed.

About the only lesson you can learn from this is that if you really cherish Freedom of Speech, then you actually require Fuck-you money to practice that right effectively.
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Every aggressor in all of history always acted out of self-righteous victimhood.
Yeh, you could spawn new processes with different access levels, but it might add too much complexity to the app.
It would be cool if we could require modules like this:

foo = require("excitingModule", {fs: true, net: true, os: true});

It wouldn't be that hard to implement either.
He did not "ignore" age of consent, and what you describe as "refusing to accept the accepted definitions" is not refusal to accept the law, as you ambiguously characterise it, but the crime of arguing how unhelpful those definitions are in the context he describes.
>Are you ready to do this for your Whatsapp?

I don't need to thanks to the fact that a bunch of those patches are now part of Erlang.
No. Wrong. You, and many others, seem incapable of parsing basic sentences.

RMS claimed it was plausible that she presented herself to Minsky as willing, due to coercion by Epstein.

There's a big difference.
On his website, for example, Stallman says that he "reject[s] the term sexual assault" completely.[1]

~edit: I have included the full quote below as I did not intend to twist/misrepresent in any way.

Stallman writes:
" The term is applied to a broad range of actions, ranging from stealing a kiss to rape, as well as other things in between. It acts as propaganda for treating them the same.

There seems to be an exception for TSA agents, however.

The term is further stretched to include sexual harassment, which is not a specific act, but rather a pattern of acts that amounts to a form of gender bias. Gender bias is rightly prohibited in certain situations for the sake of equal opportunity.

I don't think that rape should be treated like stealing a kiss, so I reject the term "sexual assault" completely."

[1]https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#assult
Reminds me Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/); but with spreadsheets instead of wikis...

... as a second thought spreadsheets are the wikis of people in finance, management...
BSD is open source, but not "free" in the GNU sense. A GNU license keeps the software free. BSD license keeps the distributor & developer "free," but not the software itself.
Thanks a lot for writing this post, and for sharing it.

> By satisfying the mob today, we are sacrificing our future. That’s the real risk.

Precisely.
> You don't get X good thing without Y bad behaviour.

Consider the following: Humans have limited capacity, thus time, money and energy spent limiting Y inhibits resources available to creating X.
Our culture has made a very bright line decision that sex with minors is unacceptable.

I wish that were true, but the sufficiently well-connected and powerful continue not to be brought to account.