On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:44:54 +0000 William Kane ttallink@googlemail.com wrote:
"The group recently reappointed the controversial developer and activist to its board; he had previously departed in the wake of sexual-harassment allegations and comments he made about the Jeffrey Epstein case that many found repellent."
Could be important to note that no harassment allegations were ever aimed at RMS himself, he's just being attacked for posting a personal opinion about unrelated events.
Ah, I see, feminists and leftists must be triggered right now, but how does this relate to the Tor Project or Mozilla in anyway?
It's always fun to get in a group and pick on someone who is weak and cannot answer, i.e. the "schoolyard" mentality.
Sure, it's not the best PR for both but if he's a valuable (code) contributor I'd let it slip - anyone remember the Freedom of speech principle?
He doesn't code as much these days, but he launched Free Software as a concept, wrote the General Public License and some cornerstone software such as GCC, it is thanks to him that we have such operating system as GNU/Linux. Here's how it all went: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/