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GNU legacy aside, I see RMS as a sort of extreme moral compass whose views and principles are an important contribution to a number of conversations, but anyone
by renaudg 10y ago
GNU legacy aside, I see RMS as a sort of extreme moral compass whose views and principles are an important contribution to a number of conversations, but anyone would be insane to actually try and live by them.
- throwanem 10y agoI find I feel rather the opposite - that while Dr. Stallman's technical accomplishments are meritorious in the extreme (especially to a longtime Emacs user like me!), his principles are so uncompromising and lacking in subtlety that they do more to polarize a discussion than the converse. Such, at least, has been my experience.