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On that note, can you think of more people quite like RMS? In other fields, perhaps?
by johnloeber 12y ago
On 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.