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What exactly do you consider radical about his position in this instance?

• ac29 7y ago
  Radical might not be my choice of words, but he's got a certain type of ideological purity around free software that's definitely on the extreme end. Here's a paraphrased version of what he's saying: "GitHub [...] has done terrible harm to our community. GitHub was so bad for free software, all along[.]" Now, if you were to define "our community" as the open source community, this would be laughable - very few people would argue that open source software has been terribly harmed by GitHub (on the contrary, the rise of GitHub has seen many projects flourish). I don't necessarily think he means the wider open source community, though - he's referring to his own Stallman flavor of free software.
  • ezkl 7y ago
    I absolutely agree. His lack of self-awareness and seeming inability to see the generally positive aspects of the growth of open source just doesn't sound radical to me. Quite the opposite in fact.
• tsukurimashou 7y ago
  Sorry I said radical because we use the same word in french but the meaning is probably a bit different, I should have said perhaps extreme or very opinionated? I wanted to say that he cares very deeply about free software and the whole philosophy of it, which can make him appear as "radical" to some people. I hope I was able to clarify.