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> the more I respect them and think stallman's brand of insanity It baffles me that anyone thinks he's insane at this point. For every point he's ever made, yo
by jasonkostempski 9y ago
> the more I respect them and think stallman's brand of insanity
It baffles me that anyone thinks he's insane at this point. For every point he's ever made, you can now easily find 10 real world examples of his fears coming true over the past few decades.
- hardwaresofton 9y agoI just want to clarify, I agree that stallman is right a large amount of the time, but it's just the delivery and the extremes that he will go to that I can't get behind 100%. But perhaps this is just more reasoning why the battle is a losing one -- people like me are just going to think things are gray while the people who are right are trying to convince us of the fact that it's black and white. It's just too hard for people individually to see past their own blindspots.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoI think he simply forgoes more modern conveniences than most of us, but I think there are still a lot of people, especially older people, that do it without even thinking or talking about it. I think he just seems extreme because he happens to be in the computer industry while rejecting a lot of what it has enabled.
- AlexandrB 9y agoIf anything, RMS was being optimistic.
- abritinthebay 9y agoBeing right and also being crazy are not always mutually exclusive. Stallman has often been correct, but that's not to say he isn't also sometimes utterly bonkers as well but on different issues (or to an insane extreme on some others).