[throw0101a]

Contra:

> The idea that someone who does enough "good work" earns a pass for inappropriate behaviour is pervasive, and fosters environments where abusers can prosper. People who hold this belief shouldn't be involved in running organisations.

* https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1374093150101200896

Other folks who did a lot of philanthropy: Jeffrey Epstein, David Koch, the Sackler family (of opioid epidemic noterietay), Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Michael Pearson, Raj Rajaratnam, Bernard Madoff, Ken Lay (of Enron).

* https://www.worth.com/the-10-most-toxic-philanthropists/

* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/harvey-weinstei...

[bondarchuk]

I don't know why you are saying this to me, it is not related to anything I've said in this discussion.

[throw0101a]

You wrote:

> RMS is anti-corporate and pro end-user. Free software has turned out to be immensely useful for big corporations, but mostly because it's free, not because it empowers the end-user. You would expect leftists to be in favour of empowering the end-user, but evidently not.

"Leftists" may be for empowering the end-user, but they may not be for allowing someone a pass on certain behaviours just because they happen to share values/principles.