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i'm judging him for his actions, like his history of propositioning female colleagues half his age during work hours to "test" the mattress in his office, which there are tens of reports of.
but, in all honesty, i agree with you. if you read my other post you'll note that i started with that because otherwise discussion tends to stop entirely. the man has no filter and an extremely strong, if peculiar, sense of ethics. this tends to cause him to do creepy things.
Do you have a source for this?
this medium post from the time of the "remove rms" letter is the source i remember reading.
Many of the accusations from this article are addressed here:
https://techrights.org/o/2021/04/24/rms-false-accusations/#mattress
i did encounter that while searching. it's good that people were not hurt, but it's so weird to see both sides be so fervent on this issue. rms is a strange man, no doubt about it, and only he can vouch for his reasons, but the consequences of his actions are visible to everyone.