Richard Stallman: Difference between revisions

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He worked at MIT from 1971 to 1984.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stallman |first=Richard |title=A serious bio |url=https://www.stallman.org/biographies.html}}</ref> While at MIT, he wrote the Emacs editor.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He left MIT over his concerns about the copyright of the software he was developing for them<ref name=":0" />

== Open letter to remove from all leadership positions ==

==Open letter to remove from all leadership positions==

in 2021-03-23, an open letter signed by many prominent figures and organizations in the free software scene was published, accusing Stallman that: "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |year=2021 |orig-date=2021-03-23 |title=rms open letter |url=https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

in 2021-03-23, an open letter signed by many prominent figures and organizations in the free software scene was published, accusing Stallman that: "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |year=2021 |orig-date=2021-03-23 |title=rms open letter |url=https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In retrospect, this was all bullshit political posturing.

==Free Software Foundation==

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 He worked at MIT from 1971 to 1984.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stallman |first=Richard |title=A serious bio |url=https://www.stallman.org/biographies.html}}</ref> While at MIT, he wrote the Emacs editor.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He left MIT over his concerns about the copyright of the software he was developing for them<ref name=":0" />
-== Open letter to remove from all leadership positions ==
+==Open letter to remove from all leadership positions==
-in 2021-03-23, an open letter signed by many prominent figures and organizations in the free software scene was published, accusing Stallman that: "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |year=2021 |orig-date=2021-03-23 |title=rms open letter |url=https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
+in 2021-03-23, an open letter signed by many prominent figures and organizations in the free software scene was published, accusing Stallman that: "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |year=2021 |orig-date=2021-03-23 |title=rms open letter |url=https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In retrospect, this was all bullshit political posturing.
 ==Free Software Foundation==