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Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp... by pdpi on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:38PM (#8812470)
"I bet Stallman's projects, and the free software movement itself, are responsible for the non-existence of numerous jobs."

Indirectly, perhaps. Application-level software projects do tend to have the "automate people's jobs away" effect, but AFAIK, Stallman has been mostly involved in infrastructure-ish "enable some people to work (on automating away other people's jobs)" projects.

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Re:“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering comp... by agildehaus on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:31PM (#8815594)
Exactly. He's responsible for many of the tools which make it much easier for everyone else to automate jobs away.
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