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There are a lot of issues with Stallman, but when it comes to software freedom, the guy has been more right, more consistently, than anyone else. The fact that
by thomascgalvin 7y ago
There are a lot of issues with Stallman, but when it comes to software freedom, the guy has been more right, more consistently, than anyone else.
The fact that he advocated for "GPL Vx, or any later version" shows how much foresight he had; he even realized that he probably hadn't foreseen every issue, and included a mechanism for fixing it, and rolling out that patch more or less automatically.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoI believe most of the developers who love coding would easily agree with Stallman. Unfortunately most of the world doesn’t care about code and they have every reason to be that way. So strategic decisions that push us towards less optimal minima are quite expected. TL;DR humanity doesn’t care about the pipe dream where everyone knows how to program and change things for themselves. they want finished products that do something.