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Most unreasonable people are useless though. There's only a small subset who drive progress.
by jdm2212 7y ago
Most unreasonable people are useless though. There's only a small subset who drive progress.
- dash2 7y agoSure, but arguably he was one. I don't know whether that has been true for a long time, and I am not personally a believer in Free Software writ large.
- wazoox 7y agoAnd RMS much definitely is part of this smaller subset.
- mruts 7y agoMy old boss at MIT worked with RMS and he said that everyone hates him. Never helping anyone, always getting into stupid autistic arguments with people. He said that RMS rarely did any real work and that everyone hated him and tried to avoid him as much as possible. My boss said that RMS once started yelling at him because he said “bless you” after RMS sneezed. Of course this is all anecdotal, but RMS strikes me as a profoundly annoying and useless person. Moreover, I don’t even like the idea of the GPL. Other licenses are better, but still suboptimal in regards to freedom. Real freedom is the public domain. In fact, all of my open source software is released under the public domain.