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> As for Stallman, there's a fine line between a madman and a genius. Reality has shown us that he definitely is not a madman. I'm not so sure the two are mutu
by SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
> As for Stallman, there's a fine line between a madman and a genius. Reality has shown us that he definitely is not a madman.
I'm not so sure the two are mutually exclusive.
- phkahler 10y agoSome people could see his point by thinking about it. To them he was a genius. Others thought he was a madman because his point was too hypothetical for them, but now that it's becoming a reality they can see he was a genius all along. You may say that it's because they couldn't see the future, but RMS experienced it back in the 1970's at MIT. Things have not actually changed, they've just started to influence a wider swath of the population.