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Richard Stallman is important as a visionary. I think, his views may be really impractical short-term, but he is often spot-on long-term. Taking him seriously a
by a-nikolaev 8y ago
Richard Stallman is important as a visionary. I think, his views may be really impractical short-term, but he is often spot-on long-term. Taking him seriously and listening to his opinion is worth the effort, I think.
- laughinghan 8y agoInteresting. What are some examples of things he predicted in the past that were really impractical short-term, but turned out to be spot-on long-term?
- a-nikolaev 8y agoI don't have specific examples off the top of my head. This is just the realization I had after reading and watching his talks and articles. You can google "stallman was right" and "stallman was wrong", and see where he got it right or not. I did some search, and this discussion seems helpful and exactly on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417033
- greymeister 8y agoI would say the modern state of surveillance capitalism is in a large part what rms warned about with proprietary systems being used against the user.