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Being uncompromising in your politics and values is hardly authoritarian. RMS runs the ship and these people knew it when they started working on a GNU project,
by PirateBay 8y ago
Being uncompromising in your politics and values is hardly authoritarian. RMS runs the ship and these people knew it when they started working on a GNU project, especially since it's well known RMS has shot down things he didn't like before.
- smsm42 8y ago> Being uncompromising in your politics and values is hardly authoritarian In general, yes, but in this particular case it is clearly "I am the Law!" case - he's being authoritarian. And your next two sentences pretty much confirm that, even if you dismiss it with "they knew he was an authoritarian when they joined" and "he's been an authoritarian for a long time". Maybe true, but doesn't make it better.
- PirateBay 8y agoI don't remember confirming his authoritarianism, I'm not sure why you think that's what I'm doing. If you think any exercise of rightful power is authoritarian than that's a childish definition and waters down what actual authoritarianism is.
- smsm42 8y ago"RMS runs the ship", "RMS has shot down things he didn't like before". > If you think any exercise of rightful power is authoritarian No, not any - this particular one, and in general one that is done "because I want it so, and your opinion doesn't matter because I decide here".