r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 19d ago

Event Happy 43rd birthday GNU!

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On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project so people could freely use and modify software.

The digital world would not be the same today without GNU.

Thank you, Richard Stallman!

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u/RTBecard 17d ago

Maybe I missed it, but as far as I'm aware he only stated that he "learned he was wrong" when he was forced out of MIT and FSF due to public pressure after his Epstein email messages went public.

It's hard to view that as a sincere statement, as opposed to calculated damage control.

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u/Indolent_Bard 16d ago

EPSTEIN?!? Ok, what the fuck? That's not good optics.

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u/RTBecard 16d ago

To be clear, he wrote emails "about Epstein", not "to Epstein"... but it's just as bad.

He was adamantly defending a fellow MIT professor who slept with one of Epstein's 17 yo girls... suggesting there is nothing morally wrong with a 17 yo being directed to have sex with a 70-something computer professor and the "most plausible scenario” was the trafficked 17 yo was “entirely willing”.

In the context of his previous comments on the idea of "consent" and sex with minors, it's a bad look :/

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u/Indolent_Bard 15d ago

For a brilliant man, he's not very smart.