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He also had to go out of his way to make sure that “improve emacs ergonomics” is conflated with “change everything we’ve ever done to be VS Code”. Which has be

• BeetleB 4y ago
  > He also had to go out of his way to make sure that “improve emacs ergonomics” is conflated with “change everything we’ve ever done to be VS Code”. Not sure how you get that from: > Lots of people come to Emacs familiar with VS Code, and they say, "Please make Emacs more like VS Code. Change everything that you did in the 1980s and 90s to be like that other thing." That wouldn't be feasible even if we wanted to. Our goal is not to be... not resembling VS Code. Any resemblance is coincidental.
  • tsuujin 4y ago
    It is probably the “change everything that you did in the 1980s and 90s to be like that other thing”. He wasn’t quoting someone, he was being hyperbolic. Hyperbole that says “if you don’t like it exactly like I made it than you’re unreasonable and your demands doubly so”.
    • BeetleB 4y ago
      You seem to have an axe to grind, and are interpreting things to suit that model you have.
• tharne 4y ago
  > The guy is walking hyperbole, I will never understand why so many people idolize him. People admire those who put their morals before personal gain, which is exactly what RMS has done. With his intelligence and academic pedigree, he easily could have made gobs of money doing things he considered unethical, but instead he's devoted his life to protecting what he sees as an important aspect of human freedom. Even if you don't like him or agree with his views, the commitment he has to human human is admirable.
  • rodgerd 4y ago
    > People admire those who put their morals before personal gain, which is exactly what RMS has done. He's a millionaire who has people provide him with travel and personal assistants. I am not sure what you think he's given up.
    • tsuujin 4y ago
      I’m always glad to see someone else look at RMS objectively.
    • DonHopkins 4y ago
      Where did you get the idea that he's a millionaire? Citations, please?
      • rodgerd 4y ago
        He won a million dollar McArthur grant and promptly purchased properly in Massachusetts with a chunk of it, and was been the owner of record for many years. It has escalated in value as you'd expect. It's not terribly hard to find the details, but dropping them directly on HN seems rather counter to the general stance on doxxing people with things like "the address of a house they own".
        • DonHopkins 4y ago
          He's been living off of it, and presumably paying taxes. How do you know it's been escalating in value? Citations, or retraction.
  • tsuujin 4y ago
    I don’t find anything admirable about RMS. He is caustic to people in mailing lists, defended a colleague accused of participating in sex trafficking by stating that the victim must have presented as “entirely willing”, has referred to child sexual abuse as “voluntary pedophilia”, and has a long, long history of accusations of sexual harassment against him. All of which makes arguments about his superior morality pretty dubious to me.
• agumonkey 4y ago
  idolize may be too strong. in my case i just see a dude who started a big project long ago with lots of good bits in it, which is worth a bit of respect