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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by dang on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:16PM (#21103261)
Surely you don't think it's ok to do this here?
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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by lostjohnny on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:34AM (#21124612)
What I think it doesn't matter.

He was arguing using the science of the time.

Darwin believed that "males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" and manyany anthropologists contemporary to Darwin concluded that "women's brains were analogous to those of animals," which had "overdeveloped" sense organs "to the detriment of the brain"

Should we judge them for being wrong at the time, without knowing it?

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