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7y ago
> Childish prose English is not his first language. > childish attitude He is one of several contributors who share that point of view. While I don't agree with it, it's something that had to be discussed sooner or later. &g
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7y ago
I may be wrong as well, but here's another attempt to explain myself: 1. (If I understand correctly) Straw man is when you say someone supports an argument he actually doesn't 2. (If true, I don't know) Developers say he'
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9k2jdn4339sdt23
7y ago
> Where is the claim or implication that it's RMS's fault? Where he says Stallman is "pretending" to run things.
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7y ago
> So, what's the strawman? It was RMS that wrote those GNU principles so I'm assuming he agrees with us as well. I see the straw man in saying that it's RMS fault if "many (most?) GNU developers [...] still consider R
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7y ago
I think this post does RMS no justice, since it adds even more straw men to the ones already spread. > RMS started GNU so RMS decides what it is and what it can be. That would be in contradiction with the GNU principles RMS wrote himself