Here[0] is a post by someone else who (by his own account) "worked for RMS longer than any other programmer."
While he obviously has had a long relationship with Stallman, one of his key takeaways was:
"RMS’s loss of MIT privileges and leadership of the FSF are the appropriate responses to a pattern of decades of poor behavior. It does not matter if they are appropriate responses to a single email thread, because they are the right thing in the total situation."
Which I think is very well said. So while Paull's assessment that people's reaction to some email quotes is out-of-proportion, this is really just the proverbial straw on the back of the camel.
While he obviously has had a long relationship with Stallman, one of his key takeaways was:
"RMS’s loss of MIT privileges and leadership of the FSF are the appropriate responses to a pattern of decades of poor behavior. It does not matter if they are appropriate responses to a single email thread, because they are the right thing in the total situation."
Which I think is very well said. So while Paull's assessment that people's reaction to some email quotes is out-of-proportion, this is really just the proverbial straw on the back of the camel.
[0] https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...