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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by msbarnett on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:07PM (#3085963)
48 hours after someone's death is not the appropriate time to start trying to draw distinctions between their death and their absence, and declare their influence "evil".

When that's your initial reaction, there's no way you're not going to come off like a giant ass.

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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by bryanlarsen on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:15PM (#3085999)
When is an appropriate time? How about 30 years before his death, which is about when RMS started calling Apple/Steve Jobs evil.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by hugh3 on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:48PM (#3086136)
Yep, it's okay to criticize someone before they die (though "evil" is usually overdoing it). And it's okay to criticize someone with a reasonable buffer after they die. But taking the opportunity of their death to criticize them is just plain tacky.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by cbs on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:16PM (#3086003)
yeah, but I'm saying this is about par for the course with stallman, and even if people happened to expect tact from him, why the huge fuss? Say "Not the right time for this conversation RMS" and _move on_. By attempting to refute his point about Jobs' absence, they lose whatever higher ground they might have had about timeliness of his statement.
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