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Richard Stallman: How I do my computing

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Re: Richard Stallman: How I do my computing

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Slow clap...

Apparently the Harvard Scandals and high incidents of rape on campus are finally catching up with Harvard, nevermind the awful things its alumni have done: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/fashion/harvard-scandal-a...

Why is this relevant in any context to this thread? Congratulations - you are now on a high horse made of marble.

Re: Richard Stallman: How I do my computing

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently the Harvard Scandals and high incidents of rape on campus are finally catching up with Harvard, nevermind the awful things its alumni have done: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/fashion/harvard-scandal-a...

Why is this relevant in any context to this thread? Congratulations - you are now on a high horse made of marble.

OP inferred they went to Harvard.

Re: Richard Stallman: How I do my computing

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> I wish the world had stuck to his principles, but it clearly hasn't and it's unlikely it will ever inch closer This puts perfectly my thoughts on stallman. I think the world would certainly be a better place if everyone adhered to his principles. However, I think his way is neither the best way nor the improvement which can most successfully be brought into action.

I don't think it is necessary that everyone does things Stallman's way; the fact that rms knows what his principles are, articulates them clearly, and lives according to them consistently provides an informative example from which the rest of us can borrow whichever elements we find useful. We don't all need to live like Stallman does for his ideas to have value, because he's already doing that for us. He is essentia…

But -- I can form my own ideas. I don't think that his ideas are anywhere close to perfect. He seems relatively fixed in his ways, so I don't see him contributing to dialogue or discussion of how ideas can be changed or improved.
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