The immediate example that comes to mind is when Richard Stallman was canceled in October, some people feared he was or was in danger of being homeless. I remember reading a post about this on Eric Raymond’s personal blog, which he has since apparently deleted or hidden. Part of the info was in posts on Stallman’s own blog stallman.org, which seems to be down, also referenced in this reddit thread.
I would like to think that RMS didn’t end up homeless, or not for more than a few days, since there must be many people who would give him donations if it came to that (and if he would accept them). But there has been no (very) public announcement of him being alright, for understandable reasons. The list of people and organizations who denounced him was impressively long, regardless. (I mean the ones like GNU and MIT, not the professional denouncers who decided to attack him.)
The immediate example that comes to mind is when Richard Stallman was canceled in October, some people feared he was or was in danger of being homeless. I remember reading a post about this on Eric Raymond’s personal blog, which he has since apparently deleted or hidden. Part of the info was in posts on Stallman’s own blog stallman.org, which seems to be down, also referenced in this reddit thread.
I would like to think that RMS didn’t end up homeless, or not for more than a few days, since there must be many people who would give him donations if it came to that (and if he would accept them). But there has been no (very) public announcement of him being alright, for understandable reasons. The list of people and organizations who denounced him was impressively long, regardless. (I mean the ones like GNU and MIT, not the professional denouncers who decided to attack him.)