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Re:Richard Stallman is the hero the internet needs by vezzy-fnord on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:27PM (#10444738)
The polarization with regard to how Stallman should be interpreted is, I believe, one of the preliminary illustrations of the rift between the entrepreneurial hacker and MIT-style hacker subcultures, modulo OSI diehards such as Eric S. Raymond.
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Re:Richard Stallman is the hero the internet needs by krilnon on Saturday October 24, 2015 @06:06PM (#10445039)
There was a funny discussion on an MIT mailing list this summer when an (apparently) tone-deaf email was sent out by MIT Professional Education entitled "4 Ways You May Be Enabling Hackers"... which warned about the dangers of cybersecurity-style hackers.

RMS's response was:

> These MIT professors ought to know better than to smear us hackers by using the word "hacker" as synonymous with "security breaker".

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