They're Been Trying to 'Kill' Richard Stallman for Years (by Mentally Tormenting Him)
THE LONG-AWAITED ARRIVAL of GNU's 40th anniversary was accompanied or darkened by bad news about "Mr. GNU" himself. From what we can gather, it's not hearsay (he said so himself) and yet... both the FSF and the GNU Project issued no official statement on the matter.
Dr. Stallman ("Mr. GNU") is like a friend to me. He talks to me like one. He didn't do anything bad to me. When people moan about his opinions or his stare they aren't complaining about a "defective" personality but usually a fundamental difference in opinion and social cues. Some of them, perhaps not realising this, are ableist and they're not even closeted about it. Codes of Conduct, as Alexandre Oliva has just explained, do not in practice exist to protect vulnerable minorities but to protect vicious large corporations from 'pesky' critics. They help protect the likes of Bill Gates from people like Dr. Stallman.
Dr. Stallman will hopefully recover (chemotherapy takes time) and we hope those wishing for his death (for years if not decades already) will reach the grave decades before him. The past few years must have been arduous and difficult for him. A bothered mind weakens an otherwise healthy body. Malicious tongue wanted to do him what had been done to Julian Assange [1, 2, 3]. █