[kwlug-disc] RMS talk hosted by UW CSC tomorrow

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:34 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm getting a little tired of people conveniently throwing away someone
> else's life work because of a few alleged discrepancies...  RMS brought the
> Open Source world to where it is today; he at least deserves credit for
> that.
>

That is exactly how I feel.

And even that controversy was not that RMS himself did something wrong.
Rather he defended a long time dead friend/mentor (Marvin Minsky) who
was alleged to be involved in Jeremy Epstein's parties (under age girls and
such).

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/14/2033212/richard-stallman-challenges-misleading-coverage-of-his-comments-on-marvin-minsky

What about a family member defending another member who is accused
or convicted of heinous crimes? An example from past weeks is a parent
defending a son who actually killed people (e.g. Alec Minassian of Toronto
van massacre, and Alexandre Bisonette of the Quebec City mosque massacre).
Should these parents lose their jobs too?
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