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Stallman sticks to his principals, and I can admire him for that. But he's actually outright unpleasant to be around, because he's facist about his ideals in a
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Stallman sticks to his principals, and I can admire him for that. But he's actually outright unpleasant to be around, because he's facist about his ideals in a way that most of us cannot or do not want to be. I get that he's against proprietary software, but calling John Ousterhout a cancer while licking his foot? It's not winning people over.
The EFF and Mozilla have done more for Stallman's cause than Stallman ever did. ESR got this one right.
Jeez. I never thought I'd say ESR was right about something that wasn't a piece of code. I guess a broken clock really is right twice a day.
- kijin 10y agoStallman has done a great deal of work to move the Overton window [1] in a direction that makes it much easier for EFF and Mozilla to operate, not to mention provided them with the FOSS tools they depend on every day. If Stallman had never existed, Microsoft might have moved the Overton window in the opposite direction and ESR would have sounded too radical for anyone to take seriously. As long as these other people are winning over more people than Stallman is losing, I'd say Stallman is still making a positive contribution to the world. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWell, that's one of the the reasons I can't hate stallman. I'm an emacs user: I'd be talking out both sides of my mouth if I wished he didn't exist. OTOH, gpsd... For Rainer's sake, 1) Emacs might not have existed in the first place if it weren't for Stallman, and 2) I use GNU emacs more often then not.