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> Yes, he did wrong and gross things, but in the same breath he's brushed under the rug, so are his ideas. His ideas being "brushed under the rug" had nothing
by filoleg 5y ago
> Yes, he did wrong and gross things, but in the same breath he's brushed under the rug, so are his ideas.
His ideas being "brushed under the rug" had nothing to do with his public "cancellation" that happened in the past few years.
Stallman has always been an extreme purist that prioritized his ideological stance over anything else that matters to users. And his ideas were "brushed under the rug" just as much 5 years ago (before public revelations about his misdoings) as they are now. It might just feel like he has been increasingly "brushed under the rug" more recently because he has been becoming increasingly irrelevant and more of just a spokesperson.
- syshum 5y agoStallman was looking out for USERS, not developers. the problem was the developers thought it was them that Stallman was wanting to protect. GPL, and Libre Software is about keeping software open from the Dev to the EndUser. Non-Copyleft "Open Source" is about keeping libraries open for Dev's to exploit into their closed source products... There is a big difference, I support Free Software, not "Open Source"
- User23 5y agoUsers and developers were the same thing in RMS's formative years. The distinction makes no difference.