[r3856283]

> Did he ever correct his statements about no women volunteering to work on GCC?

He wasn't aware of women working on GCC. There's nothing to correct. I'm not aware of women working on GCC. GNU has thousands of people working on it, he's not aware of most of them. So much criticism of him is taking his comments out of context and misrepresenting them, including so many things that are just complete fabrications that it makes it hard to actually understand what "real" problems there are.

> Did anyone ever tell him the Emacs virgins thing is very inappropriate?

Yes, and he agreed and stopped.

> And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

K. You totally lost me there. Ever been to a porn website?

[dralley]

>He wasn't aware of women working on GCC. There's nothing to correct. I'm not aware of women working on GCC.

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>Sandra Loosemore is the lead author of the GNU Library Reference Manual;[3] RMS is listed as her co-author.

[torthrowaway998]

I presume that he knew that she contributed to the glibc manual but not to the GCC. Why not ask him?

[dralley]

Several other women had contributed to GCC including being the official maintainers of pieces of it.

[torthrowaway998]

I am aware of it. r3856283 and RMS weren't. Is this that bad?

[rbanffy]

He is the public face of the FSF. It's his job to be aware of that.

[prepend]

> And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

As a father of daughters this stuff is really skeevy to me. But as for “normal,” society has a ways to improve. Remember that Britney Spears became super popular at 16 and 17 and had many fans who were not kids. The first time I saw “Hit Me Baby One More Time” I was in Best Buy and it was showing on the 100 TVs and I remember thinking “What the fuck is this, how old is that poor girl?” And the store, as typical for BestBuy, was full of like 99% adult males.