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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
>
>> rms has been ousted from the free software foundation by a decision of
>> its governing body, as far as i know.
>
> That's incorrect.  He resigned,

Stallman himself said 

    I hereby resign as president of the Free Software Foundation
    and from its board of directors.  I am doing this due to
    pressure on the Foundation and me over a series of
    misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of what I have
    said.

To me this description fits the definition of "ousted".

> and he was correct to.

Is it something he said in his recent email that leads you to say
this, or is it something else?  In either case, what is it that
makes you think so?


>> rms was a teacher at the MIT, where he has been forced to resign too.
>
> No, he was not a teacher at MIT, just a research assistent 40 years ago.

According to recent online postings, his title at the time of his
resignation (ie, in the last month) was Visiting Scientist.


>> Stallman is a dead man now, socially.
>
> He was never socially adept;  one generally reaps what one sows....

I encourage anyone who is interested to read his original email
that started the recent controversy, which can be found here:

    https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/

and also the response posting that started the uproar about
it:

    https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794

Here is a news article for something else (an interview) that
coincidentally had been scheduled around the time things were
coming to a head:

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_final_interview/

Also here is Stallman's blog covering the time period in question
(most of which has nothing to do with his resigning, but it is
something else I looked at so I am including it):

    https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html