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If it were anyone else but RMS who did that, HN would laud it as the pinnacle of hacker excellence. I could see this in a lovingly-upvoted bio of Dear Leader^w^
by tedks 13y ago
If it were anyone else but RMS who did that, HN would laud it as the pinnacle of hacker excellence. I could see this in a lovingly-upvoted bio of Dear Leader^w^wpg:
> Though the YC portfolio is typically on the bleeding edge of tech trends, focused on mobile and web apps, Graham doesn't even use a web browser unless he needs to. "I find the web distracting," says Graham. His solution? A custom-coded program that downloads web pages, formats them for offline reading, and sends them to him via email. "I spend a lot of time responding to email, so this fits in with my existing workflow, and I can keep track of it like anything else in my inbox."
If pg is a bad example, pick literally any other well-known hacker.
And yet, every time the FSF or RMS are mentioned, this is thrown up as a sign RMS is "out of touch" or "anti-technology." No, RMS is a hacker, who didn't like the user experience of the web and hacked a solution.
- gfodor 13y agoSo which side is right? The people for whom which pg can do no wrong, or the people for whom which rms can do no right?
- tedks 13y agoNeither. The people that are right are the people that apply the same reasonable standards to any demagogue. They're rare among humans, but they are the least wrong. In particular, you are wrong, since you're incapable of separating RMS's political stance on software freedom from his political stance on surveillance. If Paul Graham didn't use a cell phone, would that make Y Combinator any worse?
- gfodor 13y agoI'm wrong about what now? Where did I make any claims to be wrong about?