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He does himself no favours with his compulsion to rename things - "media services" becoming "media dis-services", "Goober" for "Uber" and so forth. Many of his
by eponeponepon 8y ago
He does himself no favours with his compulsion to rename things - "media services" becoming "media dis-services", "Goober" for "Uber" and so forth.
Many of his arguments are strong and worthy of discussion, even if his overall stance is not always so - but the way he expresses them can border into childishness sometimes. It's a pity; it gives his detractors (of whom I am not one, to be clear) an excuse to dismiss him.
- Crontab 8y agoI have a lot of respect for Stallman but I have to agree with you on this. It is very annoying and I think it creates barriers to the message he is trying to send.
- matte_black 8y agoEven if his points were valid, I feel that life is just too short to be a stallmanite.
- addicted 8y agoI agree. His points are usually very strong and he has led me to changing my opinions more than any other single individual. But his way of communicating often leads to an initial impulse to dismiss what he is saying outright, much like I would dismiss a Microsoft criticism which referred to the company as M$ or an Apple criticism that kept calling it crApple.