> [ESR] and Stallman were once close friends I rather doubt that. One of ESR's skills is to insinuate that he's on closer terms with people than he really is,

> [ESR] and Stallman were once close friends I rather doubt that. One of ESR's skills is to insinuate that he's on closer terms with people than he really is, as astutely captured by this comic: https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/wp-content/ep013.jpg https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/wp-content/ep013.jpg For a lengthy first hand report of an actual interaction between ESR and RMS, there's for instance this: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html Does not look like former or current close friendship to me.