While at the sametime being a gross person.
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Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 months agoRichard stallman was right about everything
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 months agoRichard stallman was right about everything
While at the sametime being a gross person.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Stallman is a notable figure in the industry but he was never the leader of a large tech company. That’s probably why he’s a decent guy
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He was a big defender of paedophilia, necrophilia, incest, and bestiality. He thinks people should have the right to fuck their pets or their children. Not to mention the reports on his creepy behaviour with women.
Stallman is an incredible steward of FOSS, but he is not a decent guy overall.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let’s note that necrophilia with mutual agreement (pre-mortem, and same with cannibalism) and incest with mutual agreement (between adults) are fucked up, but should be defended. Animals can’t consent, children can’t consent, so not that.
That - yeah.
Believing in discourses and narratives without understanding that they are never real is bad.
You can believe only in what you see with your own eyes since inception and till death.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why are you saying between adults, as if that’s what he said? He was talking about children. I even provided multiple examples of him saying so.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I had never heard that about him. That’s disappointing.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, for me too. Because I love practically everything he says when it comes to software.
RMS on June 28th, 2003
RMS on June 5th, 2006
RMS on Jan 4th, 2013
In the interest of fairness, he did claim to have changed his mind on some of this, although that only happened 2 days after his job became on the line after making strange comments about Epstein.
For me, suddenly having a change of heart on a decades-held (and publicly-championed) opinion, only to suddenly change your mind the second it threatens your job seems a bit too convenient, so I’m unwilling to believe it.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The FSF isn’t exactly what you think of when you hear the words “large tech company”… but you could argue that in some ways it is one couldn’t you… 😁😛
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You could, but the OP is talking about the people who became filthy rich or at least notable. I don’t know if Tom ever made any real money. Almost all of the people listed used their corporate power to smash competition and dominate the market.
If anything, Stallman is the antithesis of most of these people.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
…yahoo.com/…/tom-myspace-sold-social-media-153011…
Don’t know how he invested it but the guy certainly wouldn’t have had to work another day in his life
exu@feditown.com 2 months ago
What he did is important, but he’s definitely an asshole as well
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Old captain crunch is another one that turned out to be a weirdo
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I think you have that backwards.