[inglor_cz]

"And not everyone was aware that he was living in that office, apparently."

I never met him and yet I knew. He is notorious for doing that.

I lived in my office for a few months, too, and the fact that you live there is pretty hard to hide from visitors. Starting with various small objects that do not fit into a normal office, ending with the fact that even with reasonable levels of hygiene the room tends to acquire a certain "human" smell, especially in the winter months when you can't just have the window open for most of the time.

RMS is a worldwide known weirdo. I can understand that his behavior in general might make people uncomfortable, but trying to label him as a rapist was way off.

[rbanffy]

> I never met him and yet I knew. He is notorious for doing that.

Met him once and that wouldn’t surprise me at all. He made a huge number of mistakes over his career and those eventually came back to haunt him. I’m not judging whether it’s fair or not, just acknowledging such things happen when you are a public figure.

[p_l]

"Came back to haunt him" is probably a good summary.

It's also much easier to believe bad things about someone if one has a foundation of lesser issues to build upon, and undeniably a lot of people had negative stories to say (and I'm not even going about the infamous foot episode)

[raxxorrax]

You do, otherwise you would not have mentioned it. You are just perpetuating a childish rumor mill in my opinion.

[p_l]

It's way more known among people who were involved when FSF was a bigger force than it is now, but not anymore.