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by dralley 1920 days ago
Yes. https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

(Above is a piece by someone who worked with RMS for years, explaining why it was not this one event that got him canned, but a long pattern of poor behavior, which he partially bore witness to)

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> And, I think, some of those focusing themselves on careful parsing of RMS’s words are falling into the same pitfall as he. His intentions do not matter nearly as much as his actions and their predictable effects. ... I was around for most of the 90s, and I can confirm the unfortunate reality that RMS’s behavior was a concern at the time ... To my shame I didn’t recognize the dynamic myself when I was around it.

So it doesn't matter what he said, or what his intentions were, all that matters to the author is what they now believe, 30 years later, some people were feeling around RMS in the 90s.

The long term poor behaviour is a reasonable argument for the end result.

I just wish the people lying about him to make him look even worse than the facts did had faced some consequences for that as well.