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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by hga on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:06AM (#9027490)
I think this is an unuseful definition of ego. I had a significant degree of contact with RMS in the period leading up to the launch of GNU, including being one of his roommates when he formally launched it, and I assure you he's very seriously ego driven. Are not his expounding etc. of his Free Software philosophy, a rather big thing as in a set of principles etc., the actions of a man very certain about himself?

I think you're just perceiving a difference in how it's expressed by each of them, e.g. one reply is that ESR has a very clear goal of increasing the quality of software. Which for me is the big difference between "Free" and "Open" software.

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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by ekianjo on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:37AM (#9027722)
> seriously ego driven

Oh, he is certainly ego-driven, but not in the same way as Jobs was, for example. RMS does not put his person before everyone else, but he lives rather through his principles and tries to convince everyone why it makes sense to follow them. And he has a very solid rationale he has developed through the years, making him very articulated.

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