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RMS doesn't use credit cards and walks around town wearing a "Don't be tracked. Pay with cash" button. Even if Uber addressed every single point on his list, he
by GabrielF00 12y ago
RMS doesn't use credit cards and walks around town wearing a "Don't be tracked. Pay with cash" button. Even if Uber addressed every single point on his list, he still wouldn't use them.
- johnloeber 12y agoI do respect him for his unwavering commitment to his principles.
- taurath 12y agoI see the value in his principles but I feel like it could use a more marketable steward.
- blhack 12y ago"More marketable" is how you end up compromising on your ideals. Stallman is nuts, but he is an extremely important type of nuts. The world needs more people like him.
- johnloeber 12y agoOn that note, can you think of more people quite like RMS? In other fields, perhaps?
- jpatokal 12y agoPlenty of political prisoners fit the bill. Here's one guy who spent 23 years in prison in Singapore because he refused to sign a statement renouncing violence -- not being he likes violence, but because that would have implied he supported violence earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh On release into house arrest, he refused a government job because that would have "muzzled" him. 32 years aftert his initial arrest, all restrictions were finally lifted -- and the first thing he did was call for the abolition of the act used to arrest him. Also Mandela, Gandhi, etc.
- GabrielF00 12y agoJack Kevorkian. Ralph Nader.
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- kuschku 12y agoAnd where’s the problem with that? There are millions of people who pay with cash instead of credit cards, except for large payments, so why would that be something important enough to mention?
- dllthomas 12y agoMost of them don't wear a button proclaiming it an important choice. The point of the parent is only really undermined if Uber were able to support anonymous passengers.