He is one of the people ever in the open-source movement.
Net positive to the world by a lot.
His fight for software freedom was essential for shaping technology in the last couple of decades. Basically any software today is based on open source directly or indirectly.
Don’t listen to him about child psychology though
I think he may have been right.
Smart guy. Not a good person. Don’t idolize people
We’re talking about the creator of Emacs. Do you think that guy leaves his house.
That was my neighbor’s defense, too. “It wasn’t rape! She was very clearly coming onto me!” about the 14-year old girl he “”“encountered”“” as a college student.
He very absolutely understands what rape is. He just doesn’t want age to be a factor if she’s “into it”. It’s very very very very very clear where he stands: if she consents, it’s not rape, no matter her age!
Nobody is even accusing him of rape. Why treat him like a rapist when nobody has suggested the possibility that he had done anything wrong besides stick his foot in his mouth? It seems obvious to me that the point he was poorly attempting to make was that he’s uncomfortable with the inconsistencies around age of consent in different countries, not that there should be no such thing. 17 is enough to be a consenting adult in some actual reasonable countries.
No one is accusing him of rape. Just saying his view on the whole thing is sketch as fuck.
17 is enough to be a consenting adult in some actual reasonable countries.
…okay.
An actual good take.
Thank you.
sad to see that he thinks like that about rape and the whole Epstein thing :(
I wish people would read the published mail thread and not the news articles…he never defended rapists. His quote was quite different. Also, the victim, insofar as her interaction with his old boss, confirmed what happened.
You have to separate:
- Stallman the person
- Stallman the programmer
- Stallman the philosopher
The first two are already quite ghastly. The final one just solidifies my opinion.
What’s your opinion of Free Software?
I just woke up, so I started wondering who is Stallman the photographer?
For those who don’t know much about him, I recommend watching the movie Revolution OS. It does a good job showing what he was working towards.
Is that a code name for a glory hole hookup?
Pointless hasn’t been the same since he left. Xander looks so lonely
Politically, I don’t like him. He had a critical influence in the beginning of the Free Software movement, and its failure can be easily identified in the core ideas that put the freedom of the software before the freedom of the people. The fact he cared more about software than people is reflected in pretty much anything he did.
On a personal level, he seems an insufferable asshole with enough power to get away with toxic behavior. Luckily, I never had to interact with him, but his visibility for sure didn’t help marginalizing toxic egomaniacs in IT communities. Being neurodivergent is not an excuse for being an asshole. He’s the last remnant of an age that hopefully is over.
Only man I’ve ever seen pick shit from between his toes and eat it while having a philosophical discussion about FOSS.
10/10 agree with the ideology and think he’s an amazing programmer 0/10 agree with his culinary recommendations
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Good programmer, shitty politician ;-)
BSD folk would disagree with the former. Though now we have IBM/Redhat userland getting more popular thanks to Debian and co.; which makes GNU userland look like blessing by comparison.
I like the memes, but I don’t know a lot about the person.
