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It hasn’t been a quarter in which i haven’t told myself how richard stallman was right, and a visionary, and how much we were fools to consider him an extremist

• beering 6y ago
  And many of the things that we thought he was pointlessly complaining about, instead grew into big issues a few years later affecting all of us.
  • romanoderoma 6y ago
    That's why he was kicked out by people the like of Garreth who named him "enemy of the FSF" and mocked him on Twitter calling Stallman "bad" but he's a former Google employee...
• ngngngng 6y ago
  Sometimes he's off his rocker, but a lot of the time he's right. We can have both.
  • gerbler 6y ago
    I was riding my bicycle and stopped for Stallman at a pedestrian crossing; he grunted positively in my general direction.
• dreamcompiler 6y ago
  Stallman is a difficult person to like and he is wrong about many things, but not about this, the central issue of his career.
  • Waterfall 6y ago
    What do you find him wrong about?
    • cool_dude85 6y ago
      The detritus between your toes is not, in fact, a tasty treat.
      • Waterfall 6y ago
        Maybe you haven't had the full emulsified flavor of the Sweet Stallman Skin Sap. It's better than usual toe jams from other free software activists.
        • Ericson2314 6y ago
          https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-button-cheese-from-human-bacteria/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-but... Stallamn should sell some Camembert.
    • VectorLock 6y ago
      His public image has been degraded from toe-jam eating and supposedly outrageous riders for speaking engagements (which I think everything in was pretty level headed but some people think it was 'nuts')
      • sciurus 6y ago
        For anyone who hasn't read the rider: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt
        • cpeterso 6y ago
          > "GNU" is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like "grew" but with n instead of r. TIL I learned "GNU" is somehow pronounced with one syllable ("gnew") and not two ("guh-noo"). (I know lowercase "gnu" is pronounced with one syllable.)
        • sl1ck731 6y ago
          He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?
• lolsal 6y ago
  He is an extremist and he is also a visionary.