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Richard Stallman is always so preoccupied with whether he could make a semantic argument, he never stops to think if he should.

• foobar33333 6y ago
  That's why he uprooted his life to fight proprietary printer drivers rather than just putting up with it like most would. His pedantic behavior is what started FOSS.
  • anon9001 6y ago
    It's not pedantry, it's a philosophy. > rather than just putting up with it like most would Whatever that virtue is, I wish I had more of it.
  • rewgs 6y ago
    He's clearly one of the most important figures of the last century and utterly brilliant. But what makes him an incredible programmer also makes him a bit insufferable. Further reading: his infamous blog post about the semantics surrounding the word pedophilia.
    • Brian_K_White 6y ago
      He's not insufferable to me. I say his positions are so inarguably correct that whoever finds them insufferable is either one of the people actively making life suck, or, merely a weaker person than him. If I ever had to try to work with him, and his inability to use zoom or something was annoying to me, I know that the source of that problem is ME. Not even zoom but me.
      • rewgs 6y ago
        It’s not necessarily his positions that are insufferable. It’s his insistence on making them regardless of good taste.
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