Quoting: BrazilianGamerI consider RedHat the legit Linux foundation.

You mean IBM?

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Quoting: EhvisBut the landscape is different. EEE applied to things microsoft could control in some way. The battle fought against Linux was lost long ago and the foothold that Linux has in the total market is way too big for EEE to work. Sure they can do the first E. They can try to do the second E, but it is doomed to fail because it won't find significant adoption. Which means the third one is out of the question.

How it is lost? Microsoft still has monopoly in the personal computer market and a very sizeable part of the server market. (Don't underestimate Windows Server, None of the top 100 website use it but it still widely used thanks to lobbying in the schools of system administration). Microsoft Office is one of the most used software in the world (not on Linux) and there is lobbying from Microsoft not to make available some pro software on Linux (like Catia, Solidworks or Abacus).

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It's very Microsoft-like. A huge amount of marketing and communication and no act. Microsoft love Linux is still waiting to some gesture stronger than open sourcing a calculator or the addition in the kernel of something that was done in userspace. Hopefully, everyone will embrace Vulkan and DirectX will go down in the trash can of computer history.

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QuoteNot a situation any game developer wants to be in,

Well, some do it deliberately, more so on Linux than on other platform.

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This game is becoming what was promised at the Minecraft v1 during the beta.
Minecraft didn't need tons of news vanilla mobs and feature but decent performances and seamless mod support. Minetest is bringing this nicely.

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I used it to play Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 a few years ago. That was a pleasant experience, I'm glad they now seems to works with more and more games.
Maybe one day an indy game will use this as an engine

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Funny how Labour plan for UK internet play right in the hand of Stadia

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So many confusion. The facts are: a professor of the MIT send highly problematic comment to a whole departement (students included) while the MIT was in a deep crisis and had to resign from his position of visiting researcher. Folowing its resignation from the MIT, he also resign from the head of the FSF. He still has FSF membership.

Quoting: GuestThey have also given Socrates the poison cup for no good reason. So it's not like the average person has changed.

He was planning a coup, hardly what I call "no good reason".

Quoting: razing32Curios what is the best way to handle this.
Should an organization terminate all contacts with an individual for their opinions ?

That has not happened yet. He is still part of the FSF. For the MIT, Grotendick who was a incommensurably greater genius than Stallman has to break tie with the French college when he starts saying that science should stop at his conference.
Some opinion are incompatible with some function, you have the freedom to voice those opinion and loose your function. It's liberal America, you also have the freedom to die from poverty and malnutrition.

Quoting: soulsourceStallman is not wrong about the fact that laws about this topic are different in different countries. Where I live, Austria, consent between a 17 year old and a much older person is legally possible, unless there is a situation of power or money involved.

Which there clearly was. It's hard to argue that a 70-years old academics has no authority over any 17-years old girl. The distinction is made so that you can have someone 19 and someone 17 having sex without problem.

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The e-mails have leaked, anyone can take a peak and read what has really be written in it. Better than reading stuff from some journalist that will turn him in either a hero or a devil - he is neither-.

That guy was going to fall one day or another, he writes stupid mail like that on a regular basis. He totally misjudged the crisis where the MIT is and that, this time, it was the one too much.

The stuff at the MIT show is lack on public relation. He can be a programmer in the FSF but he can't be president. I rather have someone better at representing free software. That will let good ol' Stallman plenty of time to finish Hurd.

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It is not because some of the english-speaking newspaper have a terrible coverage of the issue that a professor who relativizes rape on a mailing list containing its student don't have to resign.
Even with plenty of bad faith, that part can't be defended.

Quote>Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it rape in the Virgin Islands.

Does it really? I think it is morally absurd to define "rape? in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or
whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.
I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that
the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

Then, he keeps going after a student ask him to stop. When he calms down and realizes what he has done, he was to resign.

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