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Just because someone adopts a different lifestyle I do not think we should laugh at him, or do you laugh when you see a sikh with a turban?

• iuguy 17y ago
  Your comment comes across as though there's an implication that someone that laughs at an indvidual is racist in some way, although I'm hoping that wasn't how it was intended. I don't laugh at RMS anymore. I feel pity for him. Sure he's written some programs that are used by a lot of people but he wants to appropriate the word freedom for his own purposes. Anyone that doesn't do things that fit his definition of freedom is not allowed to use terms like 'Free' and when it comes to that he can be a bit of a troll and in some ways self-parodying, but don't ask me, just talk to anyone using an MIT or BSD licence who's crossed swords with him.
  • zppx 17y ago
    > "Your comment comes across as though there's an implication that someone that laughs at an indvidual is racist in some way" No, I'm not, you could simply exchange "Sikh with turban" with "guy with a female swimsuit in Manhattan financial district", anyway, sorry for that, my english is awful for non-technical purposes. For the second paragraph, I do agree with you, but I still think we must not laugh at him or at anyone using a esoteric hardware combination for whatever reason there is in their heads, justified or not, one more information, I saw Stallman at a presentation in the past and he had a HP laptop back in 2002.
  • lutorm 17y ago
    "he wants to appropriate the word freedom for his own purposes" That's a crime shared by about anyone with political opinions in the US.
    • lutorm 17y ago
      I assume you're downvoting me because your idea of freedom is the true one?