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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by Data_Junkie on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:57PM (#20997402)
Politics. He disregards politics and politicians and they eventually had enough weaponry to remove the threat his disregarding their political aims was to them. Nothing more.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by shadowgovt on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:13AM (#21002327)
It's always interesting to me when people try to downplay politics as somehow "less than" the technological and theoretical aspects of software engineering. I wonder what those people imagine software is for.
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