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Re:Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of ... by Leepic on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:45PM (#5948904)
Sure, but it took him a while to get to the stage of accepting what he considers "the lesser evil" (talking about Steam from his point of view).
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Re:Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of ... by mpyne on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:40PM (#5949303)
Perhaps, but he was also pragmatic enough to kick off the GNU Project from a proprietary base and work on replacing the OS with Free software incrementally. So he has demonstrated pragmatism often when it aided his overall goals, which is something you can't say about many principled idealists.
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Re:Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of ... by Leepic on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:00AM (#5962556)
So he understands the reasons why people use proprietary software. Is that what you say?
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