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> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more. TBH I would put Drew DeVault in thi
by packetlost 3y ago
> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more.
TBH I would put Drew DeVault in this category.
- safety1st 3y agoIronically Drew DeVault shared this thought about Stallman on his blog earlier this year: > Fuck Richard Stallman and his enablers, his supporters, and the Free Software Foundation’s leadership as a whole. Shame on you. Shame on you. (He uses the word fuck in that post five times.) Drew has done some great work in OSS but he has a history of going after people he doesn't like in a very vicious way. You can't really behave like this and be a leader. A leader needs to unite not divide. For all the criticisms leveled against Stallman he saved most of his vitriol for the enemies of OSS. If everything he wrote had been as personal and expletive-laden as what Drew writes the FSF would not have gotten very far.
- robotnikman 3y agoIMO, a good leader is someone who can set his ego aside and turn the other cheek against such vitriol thrown at them. It seems like Stallman does a good job at this.
- packetlost 3y agoYeah, I don't know if I would put him in a leadership position, but at least you can trust him to carry forward the FOSS ideals.