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You and me both. I was prepared for an upper crusty profile making fun of his mannerisms or idealism. Instead I got a clear, concise summary of Stallman and t
by blt 12y ago
You and me both. I was prepared for an upper crusty profile making fun of his mannerisms or idealism. Instead I got a clear, concise summary of Stallman and the landscape of software licencing. This will be an excellent introduction for the average person.
- stephencanon 12y agoYou must not read the New Yorker very often. I don't think I've seen an article that I would describe as "making fun" of anyone in ~25 years of reading.
- bcg1 12y agoTrue... and to be fair, I also don't watch television, use any of the popular social networks other than Github, I don't have a cell phone, and my default position on anything uttered by a politician is that it is a lie. My comment was more an indictment of mainstream news at large, so if I inappropriately cast aspersions on a good publication, I apologize.
- finnh 12y agoThe New Yorker is an amazingly humane publication. Not snarky, not haughty, not what many people (who do not read it) think it is. This piece is a representative sample of their journalism. The New Yorker is like Burning Man - people who've never experienced it have strongly held, fiercely incorrect assumptions about what it is.
- matthewn 12y ago> Not snarky I see you've never read Anthony Lane's film reviews. :)
- tomcam 12y agoDownvotes not justified. Lane's reviews are distressingly snarktastic.
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- finnh 12y ago@matthewn (can't reply directly to you) - hah! You're right, Anthony Lane is hilarious. And the opera reviews can be boring if you (like me) are not into opera. But you know what I mean =)
- emodendroket 12y agoI love the New Yorker, but the whole "goings on about town" section is obviously useless if you don't live in New York.