FSF rallies behind Richard Stallman
 

After Stallman offers non-apology

Richard Stallman has offered a sort of apology for his badly received defence of Professor Minsky on an MIT mailing list and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) believes that should end the matter.

For those who came in late, a victim of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was forced to have sex with MIT professor Marvin Minsky, who was Stallman's chum. Stallman quit the FSF after he made comments in support of Minsky.

Now, Stallman has said sorry for the comments, which he claims were due to the fact that he didn't "understand the subtle cues that other people were responding to".

"Later in life, I discovered that some people had adverse reactions to my behaviour, which I did not even know about. Tending to be direct and honest with my thoughts, I sometimes made others uncomfortable or even offended them -- especially women. This was not a choice: I didn't understand the problem enough to know which choices there were."

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