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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:02PM (#21121634)
> And who, if I may ask, is this person

"This person" is Thomas Bushnell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bushnell

> who is so eagerly ventilating his opinions to feed the wolves? To me it sounds more like he's upset

This is just my reading, but "A reflection on the departure of RMS" does not have the tone of someone who is upset nor someone who is eager. It has the tone of someone who feels like they have a unique perspective that ought to be shared on a difficult subject.

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Kno... by ppsreejith on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:29PM (#21121769)
To be fair, he may have motive for being "upset" since he was dismissed from being GNU Hurd's official maintainer by Stallman.

From the Wikipedia link shared:

"Bushnell was Hurd's official maintainer from its instigation until November 2003, when he posted to the GNU project's discussion mailing list saying that he had been dismissed by Stallman for criticizing the GNU Free Documentation License.[5] Stallman said the dismissal was because Bushnell had been inactive since 2001 and wasn't responding to mail."

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