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There is nothing admirable about actively blocking progress by refusing to admit that you are unsuitable for your role as a representative an ambassador of a mo
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
There is nothing admirable about actively blocking progress by refusing to admit that you are unsuitable for your role as a representative an ambassador of a movement, unpopular to the point of hundreds of organizations criticizing you remaining in a leadership role / refusing to work with your org until you leave, and generally being ineffective.
Stallman should have passed the torch twenty years ago. Open source as a movement would have progressed far more if it had been represented by someone with a more pragmatic view and a modicum of basic social skills, instead of an inflexible, dogmatic, anti-social asshole.
- starkd 4y agoWas that really necessary? Like him or not, he is still somewhat of a legend. For all those denigrating someone as being too old, they might look in the mirror. You will end up "too old" one day too. And faster than you think.
- rhapsodic 4y ago
- KennyBlanken 4y agoNothing in my comment "denigrates RMS for being too old." Lacking any form of social grace or interpersonal skills to the point that he picks and eats his toe-cheese while on-stage for a speaking engagement, being a serial sexual harasser and general pest of women (including telling multiple college-age women that if they don't date him he'd kill himself) to the point that all the women in his office kept substantial houseplant collections in their offices because he hates houseplants, and being unable to even shut his mouth about how 'really, age is just a number' when it comes to sex with kids, and becomes extremely petulant about it when everyone objects to those views... ...is not "denigrating someone as being too old."
- dark-star 4y agooh I definitely do not admire HIM. I admire that he keeps resisting progress, still curl'ing websites and reading them locally in his EMACS just so that he doesn't have to touch a browser, and blissfully hacking away at a C language manual that the world has already hundreds of... I like to think of him as the Amish of Computer Science. Which I don't mean in a disrespectful or derogatory way, just as someone who continuously resists any kind of progress...
- Koshkin 4y ago> any kind of progress Perhaps, not "any" kind of progress, just certain kind?
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- ctoth 4y agoDoes your modicum of basic social skills teach you to call people on the Internet inflexible, dogmatic, anti-social assholes? Is name calling the appropriate method for demonstrating your superior social abilities? I'm asking as I'm rather bad at people and would love to level up!
- krapp 4y agoRMS is an inflexible, dogmatic, anti-social asshole. That's not even controversial, people have decades of receipts on that. Hell, a lot of his followers consider those qualities virtuous.