an anonymous group is trying to cancel rms (and the entire fsf) yet again: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). the pretext? protestant hysteria and prudishness
in the grand scheme of things, the fsf and gpl software in general represent unrealized profits for capital; they block a segment of the market that would otherwise have to depend on either proprietary or proprietary-friendly (permissive licenses) software. in this sense, it's demise is a matter of time because companies have a material incentive to kill it
imo libre open source software has always been a "consciousness thermometer", both among programmers and computer users in general. it is at an all-time low right now; for every ten new big open source projects I see, at most one is licensed under the gpl or equivalent. this is the impotence of trying to oppose capital within the system of capital (private property, licenses, etc.)
>>26689Draft hosted on his server:
https://archive.ph/R2KPV>>26702The person behind SourceHut and
https://writefreesoftware.org/. I wonder if he wants to become the next leader of Free Software or something.
>>26723I mean, this had 150+ replies both in lobsters and hn, and even more in a number of subreddits. what do you expect stallman to answer? how are you even supposed to respond to anonymous false accusations?
stallman and foss in general is a symbol, usually you can tell how desperate programmers are for work and corporate endorsement based on their opinion on either
>>26689Dun-dun-duuuuuunnnnn!
"The person accusing Richard Stallman of being a pedophile is an addicted lolicon himself"https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1g8o3tb/the_person_accusing_richard_stallman_of_being_a/by
https://old.reddit.com/user/OiiiiiiiiOiiiOiiiiiFully quoting so you don't have to go to reddit:
>You may have missed it, but a few days ago, a mastodon account https://mastodon.social/@report_press published The Stallman Report https://stallman-report.org/, which accuses Richard Stallman of many things, but primarily defending sexual assault and being a pedophile defender. These are based on the decades old statements that Stallman has either fully or partially retracted. It also advocates for removing four other members of the FSF board: Alexandre Oliva, Geoffrey Knauth, Gerald Sussman, Henry Poole for being "contemporaneous with the 2019 scandal". Today, the FSF is holding a "discussion forum" to determine if the members should remain on the board (link https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/113330555018293763)
>As it turned out, one of the main authors (perhaps the only one) turned out to be Drew Devault (also known as sircmpwn). The proof https://archive.is/1Ayzf includes hosting the report website at the same IP address as his own personal site, as well as hosting a draft of the report on his website https://archive.is/R2KPV . Drew has also made similar posts about Stallman before on his blog https://drewdevault.com/
>Here is the pedophile part. Some people found out that Drew had a couple of suspicious boards on 4chan in his bookmarks and more loli related content on other sites with his username, but personally I think that the evidence here is too weak so I will just post the most incriminating things that were found. Firstly there are some logs on the IRC channel #stew on Rizon (source https://archive.is/eDAu7). Among other things, Drew used some interesting words there<tight young immigrant lolis<high-density goth-loli>It is interesting to hear that someone accusing Richard Stallman of defending pedophilia has a habit of calling pictures resembling little girls tight. By the way, the links posted in there (for example this one, archived https://archive.is/yQ1EK) lead to his commercial website, SourceHut, which used to be a file hosting website (source https://archive.is/v5OB0). This is important for the most incriminating part. There is an account on danbooru going by name "dmpwn" that, among other things tagged an explicit drawing of a little girl and older male as "happy sex" (source, explicit https://archive.is/xERWG). "dmpwn" already sounds similar to "sircmpwn", but the account also posted links to sourcehut https://archive.is/KviCs. And as Drew himself said in the IRC chat:<2020-05-01 01:54:32 @sircmpwn l.sr.ht has exactly 5 users>Of course until there are logs available in a public archive, this is just circumstantial evidence, but even with that, somebody would need to
>⚫have access to the l.sr.ht which stopped taking registrations>⚫made the account https://archive.is/kJupt on danbooru in 2013 with a very similar name
>Drew also had a reddit account going by name sircmpwn, which was apparently involved in several loli-related subreddits, but I can't verify that because it was deleted. Most of the evidence I posted comes from /g/, except for the logs which come from KF