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One of which is constantly spreading rumors about Stallman.... ESR basically wanted to take credit for RMS' work and co-opt the movement. It was some pretty na

• frank2 6y ago
  >ESR basically wanted to take credit for RMS' work That is not fair. I read most of ESR's writings in the late 1990s after he started the Open Source Initiative and attended one of his talks, and I never heard or read anything from him that could be interpreted as trying to take credit for RMS's accomplishments. Although ESR contradicted some of RMS's messaging, there would be much much less open-source software in the world if RMS had somehow been able to control all the messaging around the movement.