Re: Is negative publicity always harmful? (was: Women and GNU and RMS)

[Thompson, David]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:59 PM Brandon Invergo <brandon@gnu.org> wrote:
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> As I previously requested, please let's drop discussions of particular
> people, especially when it comes to what they said or did outside of
> GNU.  I know you are not attacking but standing in rms's defense,
> however at this point it's only going to stir up dying embers.
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> Can we just leave it there?

I don't think we can.  RMS is GNU's leader, and his public comments,
whether or not they are specifically about free software, are relevant
to GNU.  Some of us are tired of looking the other way.

- Dave