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If it were anyone but Stallman, I would have thought you were being an ass about the situation. But realistically, I could see that being a concern for him and
by zackzackzack 14y ago
If it were anyone but Stallman, I would have thought you were being an ass about the situation. But realistically, I could see that being a concern for him and his ethics. I hope he doesn't die on principle quite yet though. There aren't too many FOSS clinics AFAIK.
- bostonpete 14y agoI don't see how it would realistically be a concern for him. That's like saying he wouldn't be willing to get on a plane or drive a car b/c they use closed source software...
- craigvn 14y agoI am pretty sure he has thought about this.
- rickmb 14y agoWhich is what makes RMS so valuable. He does think about things others take for granted, and he raises the alarm if he feels there's something there to be concerned about. Sure, he raises that alarm early and often (and in an annoying voice), but he's been right more than once about issues nobody else had considered before.
- dsrguru 14y agoI wouldn't put it past him. A friend of mine who has worked for the FSF told me that Stallman won't even use the web. He emails his employees to look things up for him because he assumes web sites to be malicious unless he has the entirety of their source accessible.