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Free software messiah? OP is laying it on a bit thick with that one.

• drcode 8y ago
  If it was "free software prophet" I would be fully on board: I think RMS was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing many of our future dilemmas around privacy, software patents, DRM, the open source movement, and many others.
  • rout39574 8y ago
    Or maybe "saint".
    • jammygit 8y ago
      Saint Ignucius I hope you mean ;)
    • toyg 8y ago
      Can't be a saint until he's dead.
• boomboomsubban 8y ago
  One of the definitions of messiah is >a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause Seems like an apt description of Stallman, and I'm guessing you were more aware of the Jewish king definition.