Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that.
Doesn't matter how much cool software you wrote. Or how much you donate. After a certain point people would rather not be involved with your behavior if it doesn't align.
Fortunately in this specific instance we see society taking SA and r**, as serious topics.
Let's hope we have more of this. Maybe one day I'll finally meet a female colleague in the tech industry who _doesn't_ have a harrassment story to share.
Stallman wrote "the most plausible scenario is she presented herself to [Minsky] as entirely willing."
That's very different from saying she was entirely willing. Taking words out of context to change what someone said is bad, right? Perhaps you should be outraged at Vice.
> Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that, unless it’s the music industry
FIFY
I find it weird that Michael Jackson is on the radio so often and Chris Brown is still releasing new music and selling out, yet if they were behind a keyboard rather than microphone, they would have been cancelled long ago
>The article references sexual harassment, the commenters care about market share.
Alleged sexual harassment. Granted I don't know the whole story, but it doesn't seem like there has been anything more than accusations. I don't think its right to fire someone based on heresay. Once he is proven to have crossed the lines, then I'm all for holding him accountable. Until then, I think people should keep the pitchfork in the shed.
Also I'm not defending his commentary, but people are entitled to their own opinions.
> Comments in this thread represent what’s wrong with the industry.
It's incredibly troubling. It shows that a hell of a lot of men will excuse incredibly shitty behaviour, because they think 'they're next'.
Not unless they're also being incredibly shitty. Nobody's getting 'cancelled' for bad social skills.
I am pleasantly surprised by the number of people speaking out against harassment these days. The open letter has a lot of signatories, many prominent figures. Sadly, of course, the open letter is necessary.
Here is someone getting character-assassinated because... We don't know why. This guy made others uncomfortable, or so the organizers said. Other examples of similar stories in there too:
The discussion of whether what RMS has done in the past (and still does? I don't know? Did he repent?) crosses a line in the sand that you (and others) see between bad social skills and actual harassment needs more nuance than "people don't get cancelled for the wrong reasons".
You're downplaying it entirely. He has a track record of handing out sexualized 'pleasure cards' at professional conferences.
Women at MIT were warned away from him, told to keep plants to ward him off.
And one of the most troubling things he has done is psychological manipulation. Many jurisdictions rightly recognise as domestic abuse. In particular, he told one woman he would kill himself if she didn't date him.
Depressed people should seek treatment. Being depressed doesn't excuse manipulation.
For heavens sake, "business or pleasure?" was the question you were asked at the border before getting a stamp in your passport once upon a time.
So a business card turned into a pleasure card, which has nothing to do with sex at all, except for people who want to see things that aren't there.
It's one of RMS's quaint re-namings, and people turn it into something sinister.
> Women at MIT were warned away from him, told to keep plants to ward him off.
That may have been a joke or they didn't want to listen to his preaching. Anecdotal hearsay anyway.
> he told one woman he would kill himself if she didn't date him.
How did he say that? Most likely as a joke, which millions of people have done.
But hey, let's focus on Stallman who wasn't even involved with Epstein himself instead of the people that Epstein collected dossiers about. Those would be the interesting ones, but perhaps some corporate or political interests don't allow it.
Thank you for the explanation of the "business or pleasure" connection. That's how I read it as well but with everyone pulling out their torches and scythes for a witch hunt, I was starting to second guess my own opinion and perception of all this. I'm not sure if there's a word for that phenomenon...
You downplay the sexual harassment of handing out these 'pleasure cards'.
But ultimately, real women are upset by it. The unprofessional behavior discourages women from being in tech.
Just because you wouldn't mind receiving such a card, doesn't mean it's not harassment. I mean, do you understand (a) the nature of consent, and (b) professional workplace environments?
I wouldn't call anyone (woman or man) that can't handle being upset "real". In fact it is the opposite of it. It shows a distinct lack of skills in dealing with reality, that is if you accept that real life is not just rainbows and sunshine, no matter how much we desire so.
>In particular, he told one woman he would kill himself if she didn't date him.
>Depressed people should seek treatment. Being depressed doesn't excuse manipulation.
I've been on the receiving end of that same situation; and yet, I don't think inciting an internet hate mob to banish that person from their life's work indefinitely is the proper "treatment" I'd recommend to give that person.
Your unwillingness to even look at the "insensitive language" is part of the point of that group. Recall how anti facial recognition technologies have sprung up, guerrilla style, like "Dazzle." Similarly, these groups who do not want certain types of people looking at them adopt this language and behold, some do indeed look away.
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You’d be surprised how much work goes into operating with that many subscribers. Top funnel, attrition, constant harassment, stolen content, fan requests, just to name some obvious ones.
Isn't Reddit like this, in a way? You can append ".json" at the end and get the data for a page. Others can build their own UI on top of this, if they don't prefer the first party representation.
The same could be achieved by having the server return different views of the data for different HTTP Accept headers, although not as convenient as appending a file extension. I once did this to interpolate REST API responses into dedicated HTML templates if requested with Accept: text/html, which made exploring the API in the browser more enjoyable.
If you go back to the web as a bunch of file servers, where every URL ended in the extension type of the document you wanted, this is what you get. Then MVC frameworks said "hey, if the URL represents some semantic aspect of the View, we can show off the power of MVC by letting users swap out the view by changing the extension!" And voila, some.com/url.html for HTML and some.com/url.xml for XML and, later, some.com/url.json for JSON
Most of the big MVC frameworks offered this out of the box at some point, which made life easier before dedicated RESTful APIs became a thing.
This has regressed. In the NetZero days you would be limited to some hours per month depending on your plan. Then came unlimited cable. And now we are back: my residential AT&T DSL connection is limited to 1TB per month in the Bay Area
There’s a lot. Cisco makes them if you have their conference room hardware. Any new tech corporate office (and some non tech) will have some sort of hardware that lets you dial into the meeting and or reserve the conference room.
Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that.
Doesn't matter how much cool software you wrote. Or how much you donate. After a certain point people would rather not be involved with your behavior if it doesn't align.
Fortunately in this specific instance we see society taking SA and r**, as serious topics.
Let's hope we have more of this. Maybe one day I'll finally meet a female colleague in the tech industry who _doesn't_ have a harrassment story to share.