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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by lmm on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:15AM (#26538410)
> Maybe I've just been extraordinarily lucky in who I associate with, but no-one I would consider a potential "collaborator" (either in professional or personal life) would ever demand I be incorrect about something to suit their ideals.

I find that very hard to believe. To be correct you not only need to be able to say carefully thought-out, nuanced things; you also need to be able to speculate wildly, to take half-baked ideas where they might lead. But the half-baked version of some important truths probably sounds exactly like the most offensively ignorant notions you could think of.

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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by dataduck on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:24AM (#26539345)
> the half-baked version of some important truths probably sounds exactly like the most offensively ignorant notions you could think of.

And good people are the ones who won't punish you for that. I'd agree an entire social group being this open minded seems unlikely in 2021, but GP may just have really effective filter bubble.

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