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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by wallflower on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:22PM (#244231)
"Strictly speaking, the complete operating system should have been called GNU/Linux, representing the combined contributions of Stallman and Torvalds. Stallman always insists on the term, pronouncing it "GNU slash Linux." But in the popular mind, it came to be known as only Linux. Stallman has never gotten over that."

The more I read about Stallman the more I find that his extreme stance is just who he is:

"He's entirely consistent and uncompromising and I think the world needs someone like that," Perens said.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/sho...

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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by davidw on Saturday July 12, 2008 @03:36AM (#244388)
I'm glad he exists, though, because he makes me look like a moderate, even though I'm a pretty dedicated free software fan.
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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by william42 on Saturday July 12, 2008 @09:31PM (#244797)
That's the Overton window and I'm glad he's pushing it.

Without him, we may still be in the world of non-disclosure agreements and closed Unices.

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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by cmcginnis on Friday July 11, 2008 @11:07PM (#244258)
Consistency in itself is not much of a virtue.
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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by mattmaroon on Saturday July 12, 2008 @02:25AM (#244364)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

-Emerson

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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine by andreyf on Saturday July 12, 2008 @06:02AM (#244441)
Emerson is talking about people that are consistent for fear of admitting they were wrong. I don't think Stallman's consistency is that kind...
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