On: Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

[gumby]

I am surprised he was being paid by the Institute at all. For decades he was not AFAIK.

[geofft → gumby]

I don't believe he was. He's listed as a "visiting scientist": https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/richard-stallman

I think that just means that some faculty member is sponsoring you to have building access and a login account, more or less. (And the implications of affiliation of course.)

[whymauri → geofft]

There's some less direct symbiotic benefits too, like the LibrePlanet has been at the MIT Stata Center for a couple years (at least). These sorts of things are facilitated by his role, for sure. I hope well-meaning conferences like that don't get disrupted by his resignation.

[geofft → whymauri]

LibrePlanet has been at Stata through the sponsorship of SIPB, MIT's computer club, which has the ability to book rooms as a student group. Not through Stallman.

(disclosure, I am an alum SIPB member.)

[whymauri → geofft]

Oooh, nevermind then. An attendee had told me some inaccurate information a few years ago, then.

Thanks for the clarification. Glad to hear there probably(?) won't be any complication in future years.

[gumby → geofft]

The faculty members in question being Abelson and Sussman.