Richard Stallman — "Does it really? I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depe…"
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.
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American programmer who founded the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, whose copyleft GPL licensing made the modern Linux ecosystem possible.
Closely associated with
Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel creator who builds on GNU userland) and Eric S. Raymond (open-source advocate (The Cathedral and the Bazaar)).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder — Gates's 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists arguing for software-as-property is the foundational document Stallman's GPL was specifically written to refute — the two opposing answers to 'who owns the code'.
Details
Email to an MIT listserv, responding to a colleague about the age of consent in the Virgin Islands