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"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

• johnloeber 12y ago
  On that note, can you think of more people quite like RMS? In other fields, perhaps?
  • jpatokal 12y ago
    Plenty 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 ago
    Jack Kevorkian. Ralph Nader.
• deleted 12y ago
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