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I too am very disturbed by the historic records of Stallman's bad behavior. Was he ever forced to take sensitivity training or anything, or did everyone just ignore it?

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Everyone put plants in their office to passive aggressively shield themselves, because RMS hates plants.

That's pretty much straight from encyclopediadramatica (except they refer to a particular plant) or second-hand (starsandrobots).

The rumour would be more poetic if it said he liked plants, and that he feigned having a phobia to get people to have office plants.

Edit: removed unintentional copy pasta.

I don’t know why this is being downvoted: it is actually true. I know it sounds ridiculous, but that is because tolerating his behavior for this long was ridiculous.

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