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Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction by Natsu on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:32PM (#3165663)
RMS is uncompromising to the point of being tactless. Always has been, based on the old email threads people pass around.

I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.

Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction by meric on Thursday October 27, 2011 @07:26PM (#3166096)
Jobs, too. When you talking about the persons rather than what they do, I think they are more similar than they're different.

>> I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.

Macbook Air with no DVD drive. Some people thought Jobs was wrong, because it had no regard for practicality.