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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by josefx on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:03AM (#33053927)
> An honorary doctorate is still a doctorate, though.

A honorary doctorate is to a doctorate as a honorary citizenship is to a citizenship. It does not imply any rights or qualifications and trying to pass it of as the real deal may be (and in some places is quite explicitly) considered fraud.

Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by pvaldes on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:53PM (#33060157)
And in other places is not fraud. Your mileage may vary.