Richard Stallman – How I do my computing

Re:Richard Stallman – How I do my computing by bosch_mind on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:39PM (#36924945)

I’m sure I appreciate a lot of what Stallman has done for me directly and indirectly, but this dude is intense about computer usage to the point where the extremism is a bit much for me to admire

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Re:Richard Stallman – How I do my computing by notRobot on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:26PM (#36925382)

Someone's gotta push the extremes so most of us can exist in the middle and still make progress.

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Re:Richard Stallman – How I do my computing by forinti on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:44PM (#36925572)

Although he is a bit radical, I have a harder time trying to comprehend how people put up with Windows nowadays.

It feels like people will put up with anything that MS makes up. If Windows asked for a credit card number, people would happily offer one.

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Re:Richard Stallman – How I do my computing by prepend on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:51PM (#36927341)

I actually like that there are people out there like the dude/RMS.

I don’t necessarily want to emulate him or hire people like him, but I’m glad he’s here and grateful for what he’s done.

I think that if you try to grind down the rough parts of people like RMS, you lose the genius. So I take people for a whole given that their net benefit is enough and they don’t have some catastrophic flaw.

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