Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says he won’t quit again

Re:Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says h... by mikece on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:12PM (#26547157)

> Movements like this do need someone that can rule with an iron fist and maintain the core principles and save them from dilution.

Movements like this WOULD NOT EXIST without people like RMS. He has many unpolished and rough edges but he gets things done that move computer science forward.

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Re:Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says h... by geofft on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:32PM (#26547447)

By "move computer science forward," you mean the part where he intentionally technically weakened GCC because of his ideology and refused to accept LLVM (an academic project to build a better compiler) because he thought it was too powerful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

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Re:Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says h... by Daho0n on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:35PM (#26548289)

This reads exactly as how in politics the left attacks the right and the right attacks the left. Attacks with nothing but headline grapping one-liners and oft repeated slogans.

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Re:Richard Stallman back at Free Software Foundation, says h... by cmsj on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:46PM (#26549064)

RMS hasn't gotten anything done in years, if not decades.

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