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Is the quality of RMS's work so good that he is worth all of this effort?
by williamtwild 6y ago
Is the quality of RMS's work so good that he is worth all of this effort?
- mhh__ 6y agoNo. His writing is still prescient but his leadership seems to have no upsides I'm aware of in the last few decades or so. GCC Plugins leading to LLVM come to mind, Chris Lattner even offered LLVM to the FSF (not sure of the exact chronology here, can dig up the emails later if desired). Oops
- prepend 6y agoI would hope that we don’t boil everything down to a utilitarian “is it worth the effort to fight for what is right.” I would hope that any contributor to a community would have this level of activity to right a wrong, not just the famous people. On utilitarian grounds, I don’t think this individual person is “worth all this effort,” but I think trying to establish community norms is worthwhile if our goal is a healthy community with strong contributions going forward. If a member can be expelled based on a blog post then that’s bad and will detract from people’s willingness to participate, I think.