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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by ppopoff on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:10PM (#11983815)
> Nearly 20 years later, it's clear that Stallman is almost certain to be a historical figure remembered hundreds of years from now.

Hyperbole much? He's not going to be forgotten, but... RMS is a hacker icon, but he's a bit obscure outside the community. RMS is legit hating on Facebook here but there's no Hollywood movie about RMS. Zuckerberg is a household name. I'll agree that RMS has done more net good thank Zuckerberg, but who is more likely to show up in a textbook a hundred years removed at this rate?

Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by jdietrich on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:49PM (#11983933)
Breadth and depth of fame are orthogonal.

Unless he does some remarkable philanthropy, Zuckerberg will be forgotten shortly after Tom from MySpace. Facebook isn't really fundamental to anything, it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well.

RMS may never be well known to the general public, but his reputation within his field is likely to endure in a manner similar to Euclid or Eratosthenes. GNU and the GPL are foundational elements of modern computing. Stallman had the fundamental insight that software is inherently political, then built a large part of the infrastructure necessary for humanistic software to flourish. The landscape of modern software would be utterly unrecognisable without the contributions of RMS.

Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by pyre on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:48PM (#11984119)
> it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well

So is McDonald's, but I somehow think that they've managed to embed themselves into the culture/society enough that they won't soon be forgotten should they ever fall.

Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by Teever on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:57AM (#11984269)
So what can you tell me about the founders or CEOs of McDonalds?
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by ppopoff on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:13AM (#11984439)
Seriously? How about the McDonalds, and Ray Kroc? Never heard of those names?
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by Majestic121 on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:55AM (#11984736)
I never heard of Ray Kroc. I just asked around and not one person knew who the CEO of McDonalds is. (Ronald does not count I guess)

You're overestimating how famous this guy is.

Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by pfranz on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:02AM (#11984951)
I'd expect Ray Kroc to be at the level of a Jeopardy question. I wouldn't expect RMS to be a question. Michael Keaton is playing Ray Kroc in a film that will be released in two months.
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by andreyvit on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:11AM (#11985179)
FWIW, as a single data point, I've never heard of Ray Kroc and didn't know that McDonalds was a name (although I would guess so if asked).
Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by pyre on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @01:17PM (#11995548)
Was there ever a point in time when the founders / CEOs of McDonald's became cultural icons / household names?