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> Stallman is a bastion of software freedom In my judgement, he has done marginally more good than harm. Under his leadership the FSF has had only limited impa
by sjansen 6y ago
> Stallman is a bastion of software freedom
In my judgement, he has done marginally more good than harm. Under his leadership the FSF has had only limited impact. Mirroring his own behavior, it has instead often wasted money and good will tilting at windmills instead of of effecting change.
I support the ideals of software freedom, but I do not support the FSF or Richard Stallman. He was key to getting the ball rolling decades ago, but has mostly been a distraction and impediment since then. Other projects, such as Debian and Mozilla, have made far larger contributions over the past couple decades.
- cma 6y agoWikipedia was tied up in a code documentation license (GFDL) that didn't really make sense for it. Stallman allowed it to be relicensed into creative commons, someone else's baby. Many people in the same position would have let their ego take control and keep it under the license they created or were most associated with out of pride.