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Stallman is generally not a very... tactful person.

• seba_dos1 8y ago
  That's right, it might even hurt his mission, but it doesn't make him less right.
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  • astrodust 8y ago
    Was he right about abortion jokes? David Bowie made predictions far more profound than Stallman, and they came from a place of genuine concern, not tin-foil hattery of the GNU variety: https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/11/10753158/david-bowie-internet-future-interview https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/11/10753158/david-bowie-inte... I'd rather have people that cared and were on the right path, picking the right battles, than assholes who are technically correct but their observations are ultimately irrelevant to the larger fight.
    • M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
      I don't get the abortion joke debacle. It was blatantly pro-abortion, yet it seems like it's only the pro-abortion people that are upset about it.
      • JdeBP 8y ago
        That's because you erroneously think that the conflict was about abortion. It was actually about whether user reference manuals should properly contain jokes about such highly politically charged topics.