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John Lennon was a misogynist but wrote world changing music. Churchill was a racist that (arguably) saved his nation from invasion. Stallman is a Marxist ("fr
by rswail 7y ago
John Lennon was a misogynist but wrote world changing music.
Churchill was a racist that (arguably) saved his nation from invasion.
Stallman is a Marxist ("from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs") when it comes to how the power of computing is used and distributed and arguably the GPL and Linus's choice to use it for Linux have had world changing effects.
But Stallman is a man that also has no clue about how to deal with people in general or in tolerating other views.
His defence of Minsky's behavior is unacceptable as the head of the FSF and damaging to CSAIL/MIT (as is the relationship of MIT to Epstein in general).
It is unfortunate for him that his defence of Minsky has had this effect on his career. However, the impact of the result of that defence on the institutions he represented is much more important to resolve.
Geniuses in one field are not knowledgable in others.
- ijiiijji1 7y agoUnless they are just mythological, all people are fallible, inconsistent human beings who put on their pants one leg at a time. There is no magic.
- rimliu 7y agoIt is interesting how you presented communist slogan as a marxist.
- stephenr 7y ago> Geniuses in one field are not knowledgable in others. What "knowledge" are you suggesting is required, that RMS does not posses, to understand that fucking kids is not OK? Is this like when a sports "star" rapes someone, and then the team says they'll have "training". What does this training look like? "Lesson 1. DON'T RAPE PEOPLE. Class dismissed."
- jacquesm 7y agoI've made this point elsewhere, but it is Minsky's alleged behavior and Stallman did Minsky a large amount of harm by defending him as though it had definitely happened. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20992876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20992876