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My question is why hasn't the open source community shunned him for these sorts of comments? Someone like the ex-Mozilla CEO was shunned and booted out of his position for much less.

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Well technically it would be the free software community who would shun him, since the open source community have already rejected his principles and leadership.

I see what you did there! Well played sir!

Because his views on things like these do not matter when considering him as a figure in the open source community. There's no reason to believe that this would impact the quality of his software or his ability to communicate with people about software.

FWIW, I feel the same way about Eich.

Much of the open source community doesn't know who RMS is. Much of the rest don't have a problem with these sorts of comments, and just assume RMS is a victim of an SJW witch-hunt.

>Someone like the ex-Mozilla CEO was shunned and booted out of his position for much less.

Entirely different factions within the community.

The people who don't take issue with Stallman's comments also likely had no problem with Brendan Eich, and believe he was a victim of an SJW witch-hunt as well.

Because we are becoming more mature.

Unfortunately, we all know the answer. It is currently more acceptable to most journalists and to the media mobs to be friends with a billionaire pedophile and sympathetic to pedophilia than it is for a person to give money to an organization that doesn't turn its website into a rainbow for 1/12th of the year.

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