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What really gets my goat about the RMS situation is that he's not neuronormative, the same people lambasting him are the same people who would deride judgement
by kemonocode 6y ago
What really gets my goat about the RMS situation is that he's not neuronormative, the same people lambasting him are the same people who would deride judgement calls that harsh against someone who's on the spectrum, yet somehow he's an acceptable target.
Yes, he's awkward as all hell, and yes, he makes people uncomfortable sometimes and has no social filter, but his contributions are too many to be ignored and his behavior to me seems to be without malice.
- caeril 6y agoThis is nothing more than revenge of the non-nerds. The younger generation of technologists tend to have much better social skills than those of us "olds" who grew up on BBSes and the purple 8086 book. Writing software is now cool, so the newer cadre of developers are the same mental archetype that stuffed us into lockers for not being normal. They just do different things than play football now. They intend to punish us for the crime of not having been properly socialized by our peers.