Red Hat as a publicly traded company is interested in making money, and to do that, they do a lot of terrible shit that they think will get them more.
However, they do also employ thousands of people who contribute to free software projects without attempting to subvert them. A lot of these projects don't even have any direct impact on Red Hat's (or IBM's) bottom line, there are thousands of people working at RH who just contribute to... whatever, really.
Fun fact: I'm not sure if this is still true today, but I know for a fact that about 5 years ago, Red Hat's biggest single office focused on software development was in the Czech Republic. (Raleigh NC always had more people, since it's the company headquarters, but a huge chunk of the employees there were beancounters and upper management.)
The Czech employees almost universally despise troons and laugh at muh soggy knees - they just shut up and submit PRs, and laugh at the Americans who keep spamming internal mailing lists with diversity bullshit in private, among each other.
Melissa Di Donato, CEO of veteran Linux maker SUSE, who signed a petition calling for his removal on behalf of her organisation, tweeted: "There is a time to speak out and take a stand when abhorrent decisions are made. That time is now."
Virginia Roberts Giuffre was born August 9, 1983, and the AI conference where she was directed to have sex with Marvin Minsky was in April 2002, so she was 18 at the time.
According to a witness, she did approach Minsky at one point, and he told her to get lost. Minsky's wife was with him the whole trip and confirmed that nothing untoward happened.
Giuffre did not accuse Minksy herself. Rather, her testimony in a 2015 suit against Ghislaine Maxwell became known, in which she stated that Maxwell had "directed" her to have sex with Minsky, but never said she actually did. But of course our reliable media ran with the story anyway, first falsely claiming Giuffre was only 17, and smearing Minsky (who died in 2016) by saying that he had had sex with an underage sex slave. His Wikipedia article even had a section titled "Allegation of child sex abuse". Eventually enough people came forward with more information, and Minsky's name is mostly cleared.
Giuffre has an active Twitter account, and could have clarified at any point, but never did.
I thought his crime was pointing out that someone was in a state where the legal age was 17, which made the event in discussion consensual, and not statutory rape, and that where something happens and local laws actually matter.
On his personal blog he called for the legalization of prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia. In his own words: “All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”
This guy can go fk himself... I'd be pissed too if someone like this was fired, and then rehired...
See this is the thing. I have long known RMS has abhorrent personal views and I still wouldn't give a crap if he's good at ... whatever they expect him to do at FSF. Like sometimes you just need to compartmentalize aspects of a person.
I'm out of the loop on this one. Why are they pilling on him like that?
It can't be just a half-baked tweet, are they trying to make an example of him or something?
After Epstein's victim said she had been coerced as a teenager to have sex with the now-late MIT professor Marvin Minsky, who would have been 73 at the time of the alleged assault, Stallman suggested Minsky might somehow not have known she'd been forced to do so. In the same thread on MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory listserv, he also referred to Epstein's victims as a "harem." The remarks led to calls for his resignation and increased scrutiny on Stallman's past behavior as well as on other distasteful comments documented on Stallman's personal blog and elsewhere.
I looked up the wikipedia article on harem to see why these people found that word offensive, and was surprised to see it's a very positive article about men keeping women secluded. Jimmy Wales agrees that Islam Is Right About Women.
I gave a presentation about a decade ago at a tech conference about the cloud. My take was it was a lot like Timeshare was back in the 70's. Basically paying for time on someone else's mainframe, only today its multiple machines taking up a room instead of one big one.
My prediction was that it would catch on big throughout the 2010's and that I thought something would happen that would cause companies to rethink that position. I was thinking more along the lines of a data breach. Then I planned on making a bunch more money in the 2020's consulting as companies decided to move stuff back in house. Now they'll be using similar virtualization technology that the "cloud" hosting providers have developed.
After the whole Parlor de-platforming happened my LinkedIn profile suddenly got a spike in traffic and my phone started ringing. People saw what happened there and realized that they had become too reliant on other people's platforms and that could cost them. Especially given how Parlor's data was leaked/breached...either way that part of the whole ordeal has given some CIO's pause and thinking that it's time to reconsider how much they rely on other companies.
Now I have a feeling that when those companies do bring that stuff back in house they'll be opening datacenters in low cost countries and not the US, but...
Did anyone believe that Red Hat was seriously interested in 'Free Software' to begin with? All these giant corporations are nothing but pure cancer.
Red Hat is owned by IBM, right?
Red Hat as a publicly traded company is interested in making money, and to do that, they do a lot of terrible shit that they think will get them more.
However, they do also employ thousands of people who contribute to free software projects without attempting to subvert them. A lot of these projects don't even have any direct impact on Red Hat's (or IBM's) bottom line, there are thousands of people working at RH who just contribute to... whatever, really.
Fun fact: I'm not sure if this is still true today, but I know for a fact that about 5 years ago, Red Hat's biggest single office focused on software development was in the Czech Republic. (Raleigh NC always had more people, since it's the company headquarters, but a huge chunk of the employees there were beancounters and upper management.)
The Czech employees almost universally despise troons and laugh at muh soggy knees - they just shut up and submit PRs, and laugh at the Americans who keep spamming internal mailing lists with diversity bullshit in private, among each other.
Did he criticise women?
Also, Mozilla is becoming worse than Google.
How young?
Virginia Roberts Giuffre was born August 9, 1983, and the AI conference where she was directed to have sex with Marvin Minsky was in April 2002, so she was 18 at the time.
According to a witness, she did approach Minsky at one point, and he told her to get lost. Minsky's wife was with him the whole trip and confirmed that nothing untoward happened.
So, it's the typical MeToo bullshit and even the Epstein case isn't as secure as we think it is?
Giuffre did not accuse Minksy herself. Rather, her testimony in a 2015 suit against Ghislaine Maxwell became known, in which she stated that Maxwell had "directed" her to have sex with Minsky, but never said she actually did. But of course our reliable media ran with the story anyway, first falsely claiming Giuffre was only 17, and smearing Minsky (who died in 2016) by saying that he had had sex with an underage sex slave. His Wikipedia article even had a section titled "Allegation of child sex abuse". Eventually enough people came forward with more information, and Minsky's name is mostly cleared.
Giuffre has an active Twitter account, and could have clarified at any point, but never did.
I thought his crime was pointing out that someone was in a state where the legal age was 17, which made the event in discussion consensual, and not statutory rape, and that where something happens and local laws actually matter.
This guy can go fk himself... I'd be pissed too if someone like this was fired, and then rehired...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/17/richard-stallman-has-resigned-as-president-of-the-free-software-foundation/?sh=6658be395527
See this is the thing. I have long known RMS has abhorrent personal views and I still wouldn't give a crap if he's good at ... whatever they expect him to do at FSF. Like sometimes you just need to compartmentalize aspects of a person.
I'm out of the loop on this one. Why are they pilling on him like that? It can't be just a half-baked tweet, are they trying to make an example of him or something?
They're upset because he defended Marvin Minksy against an accusation no one made.
The usual, meaning total BS:
She never said that. She said she was ordered to have sex with him; she never said the act took place.
I looked up the wikipedia article on harem to see why these people found that word offensive, and was surprised to see it's a very positive article about men keeping women secluded. Jimmy Wales agrees that Islam Is Right About Women.
I gave a presentation about a decade ago at a tech conference about the cloud. My take was it was a lot like Timeshare was back in the 70's. Basically paying for time on someone else's mainframe, only today its multiple machines taking up a room instead of one big one.
My prediction was that it would catch on big throughout the 2010's and that I thought something would happen that would cause companies to rethink that position. I was thinking more along the lines of a data breach. Then I planned on making a bunch more money in the 2020's consulting as companies decided to move stuff back in house. Now they'll be using similar virtualization technology that the "cloud" hosting providers have developed.
After the whole Parlor de-platforming happened my LinkedIn profile suddenly got a spike in traffic and my phone started ringing. People saw what happened there and realized that they had become too reliant on other people's platforms and that could cost them. Especially given how Parlor's data was leaked/breached...either way that part of the whole ordeal has given some CIO's pause and thinking that it's time to reconsider how much they rely on other companies.
Now I have a feeling that when those companies do bring that stuff back in house they'll be opening datacenters in low cost countries and not the US, but...
Some other companies do that. Oracle Linux is, to a large degree, rebranded Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Amazon has something like that as well.
i said this on reddit as well but i'll say it here too:
your organization owes its entire existence to the man. a little respect is compulsory.