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Stallman 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 pr
by kijin 10y ago
Stallman 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.