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For perspective, he shoehorned an unrelated and uneducated view on a topic into the first 15% of his talk.

• BeetleB 4y ago
  Put another way, people are ignoring 85% of his talk to complain about a side distraction.
  • NateEag 4y ago
    A side distraction that RMS chose to put there, and a side distraction that is poorly reasoned and badly communicated. Of course people are focused on it.
    • BeetleB 4y ago
      Oh I don't know. Back in school when asked to write a response to an essay, if I focused on the distraction and not the main point, things didn't go well.
      • NateEag 4y ago
        I didn't say it was good to focus on it, just that obviously people are going to. If someone wants to communicate a particular point, it's wise for them to eliminate the rabbit trails and distractions from what they say. It's especially distracting to the programmer-type if the side point is badly argued. Human nature is, alas, fairly predictable in the large.