I think this is good and wise commentary. I've met RMS and while I do admire his work, there is no denying that in inter-personal matters, he is a repulsive tro

I think this is good and wise commentary. I've met RMS and while I do admire his work, there is no denying that in inter-personal matters, he is a repulsive troll. I've sat in an audience and watched in disbelief as he rambled on while stuffing his hand down the back of his pants, rooting around back there, then pulling out his fingers and sniffing them, all without missing a beat. He and many other people would like, I think, to live in an abstracted world where they interact mostly with other people using computers as intermediaries, so that they don't _have_ to spend what they consider to be wasted time on learning decent inter-personal behavior. I guess that's fine, as it goes, but I think we are learning that living in that mindset means that one's toxic thoughts can't help but leak through the terminal interface. I will actually be glad when it isn't good enough for people to be technically brilliant; we also can and should insist that they be decent and respectful in their inter-personal behavior as well. I'm reading a fascinating biography of some of the science fiction writers that produced the so-called "golden age," called _Astounding_ by Alec Nevala-Lee. The author does not hold back from mentioning that widely beloved figures like Isaac Asimov had terrible habits like snapping women's bra straps whenever he'd walk past them, or groping female fans whenever the opportunity presented itself. Full disclosure: I myself did the bra strap thing a lot... when I was sixteen.