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> Movements like this do need someone that can rule with an iron fist and maintain the core principles and save them from dilution. Movements like this WOULD N
by mikece 6y ago
> Movements like this do need someone that can rule with an iron fist and maintain the core principles and save them from dilution.
Movements like this WOULD NOT EXIST without people like RMS. He has many unpolished and rough edges but he gets things done that move computer science forward.
- geofft 6y agoBy "move computer science forward," you mean the part where he intentionally technically weakened GCC because of his ideology and refused to accept LLVM (an academic project to build a better compiler) because he thought it was too powerful? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789
- Daho0n 6y agoThis reads exactly as how in politics the left attacks the right and the right attacks the left. Attacks with nothing but headline grapping one-liners and oft repeated slogans.
- cmsj 6y agoRMS hasn't gotten anything done in years, if not decades.