On: Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

[pvaldes]

What means CSAIL exactly? What are the responsabilities or goals of this role?

[wyldfire → pvaldes]

CSAIL is not a role, it's the institution: "MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory"

[pvaldes → wyldfire]

I understand, ok. And what where the actual role of Stallman in this laboratory?

Updated: explained below, answering to mail lists. Resigning does not seem like a big deal.

[wyldfire → pvaldes]

> Resigning does not seem like a big deal.

IIRC he had an emeritus position? So the big deal is his loss of reputation/prestige as a result of his involvement and/or comments regarding this scandal.

Aside: I am just relaying what I've read so far, I don't know anything about the allegations of offensive things RMS may have said or done.