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The Stallman report (stallman-report.org)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had heard that his behavior was problematic, but I was unaware of the depth of the issue.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not just problematic, but consequential too:

Richard Stallman has also embarked upon a decades-long political project to normalize sexual violence. Under his ideological leadership, the free software movement is unsafe, particularly for women. Women represent just 3% of the free software community,2 compared to 23% of industry programmers generally.3 This is no accident. There is a pervasive culture of sexism and a stark lack of accountability in free software, and it begins with Stallman’s unchallenged and reprehensible behavior.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's what I meant. I guess problematic means more objectionable, but I mean that it presents a serious difficulty within FOSS culture.