Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman
by eesmith on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:07AM
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I never lost that in the discussion.
We speak ill of dead people all the time. We've been speaking ill of the dead for a long time. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."
Adam Lanza was the Sandy Hook murderer. He can't speak for himself. Is that not an attack on his moral character?
Omitting the bad things someone did, to only look at the good, whitewashes history.
RMS was absolutely correct to spend as much political capital as he wants to defend Minsky. In this case though, that political capital was also being used to keep his position at MIT and at the FSF. Once spent, he no longer had the support.
We speak ill of dead people all the time. We've been speaking ill of the dead for a long time. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."
Adam Lanza was the Sandy Hook murderer. He can't speak for himself. Is that not an attack on his moral character?
Omitting the bad things someone did, to only look at the good, whitewashes history.
RMS was absolutely correct to spend as much political capital as he wants to defend Minsky. In this case though, that political capital was also being used to keep his position at MIT and at the FSF. Once spent, he no longer had the support.