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A comment on In Praise of Richard Stallman (2003).

Re:In Praise of Richard Stallman (2003) by souldeux on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:10AM (#26593069)
>Stallman (rms as he is normally referred to, maybe Richard Stallman is his slave name or something(I'm joking)) was working out some of the finer points of programming when his critics were still peeing in their pants.

Written by, and for, a specific audience.

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Re:In Praise of Richard Stallman (2003) by klyrs on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:18AM (#26593142)
Oh ha ha ha, slavery is so silly! And pee jokes! How witty. (sarcasm:11)
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Re:In Praise of Richard Stallman (2003) by IgorPartola on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:25AM (#26593215)
Oof. To me that joke is definitely in poor taste.

As a general rule, I find that just because someone has been around for a long time or has a large body of work to show for their career does not make them a nice or pleasant person; it also doesn’t make them always right. I am not going to comment on rms specifically but how many assholes do we have running things and continue letting them be assholes just because they’ve also produced something worthwhile?

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