Richard Stallman: How I do my computing
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Richard Stallman: How I do my computing
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Re: Richard Stallman: How I do my computing
#2> I can support his views on this issue. However, my choice for president is still Bernie Sanders, partly because I expect him to stand for similar policies about abortion and contraception.
Bernie can still win!
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#3I honestly believe that in this day and age Richard Stallman's way of viewing computing is haplessly out of touch and no longer relevant.
I say this as someone who saw him talk to my cambridge / boston area university's ACM group, afterwords he bummed a ride from my friend back to MIT. He dismissed most questions from students and while we were riding back in my friend's car (with Richard Stallman in the front seat) he basically didn't answer any questions and just argued semantics.
I love Richard Stallman and what he stands for, but I think we need to re-evaluate how we digest and understand his opinions on computing in current times.
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#4I honestly believe that in this day and age Richard Stallman's way of viewing computing is haplessly out of touch and no longer relevant. I say this as someone who saw him talk to my cambridge / boston area university's ACM group, afterwords he bummed a ride from my friend back to MIT. He dismissed most questions from students and while we were riding back in my friend's car (with Richard Stallman in the front seat)…
why is that? what makes something relevant? I think just the opposite - it's increasingly relevant, even though I don't follow his ethical system.
how is your single conversation with him relevant? It doesn't seem relevant at all, sample size of 1... maybe it would be if you bothered to tell us what he dismissed.
This last part seems disingenuous, but how so?
I'll grant you this: he hasn't said much that's new and also of interest in the past 10 or 20 years probably. But his past thinking is still extremely relevant.
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#5I honestly believe that in this day and age Richard Stallman's way of viewing computing is haplessly out of touch and no longer relevant. I say this as someone who saw him talk to my cambridge / boston area university's ACM group, afterwords he bummed a ride from my friend back to MIT. He dismissed most questions from students and while we were riding back in my friend's car (with Richard Stallman in the front seat)…
> cambridge / boston area university
Is this a long winded way of saying “Harvard”?
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#6I honestly believe that in this day and age Richard Stallman's way of viewing computing is haplessly out of touch and no longer relevant. I say this as someone who saw him talk to my cambridge / boston area university's ACM group, afterwords he bummed a ride from my friend back to MIT. He dismissed most questions from students and while we were riding back in my friend's car (with Richard Stallman in the front seat)…
> cambridge / boston area university Is this a long winded way of saying “Harvard”?
Slow clap...
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#7I honestly believe that in this day and age Richard Stallman's way of viewing computing is haplessly out of touch and no longer relevant. I say this as someone who saw him talk to my cambridge / boston area university's ACM group, afterwords he bummed a ride from my friend back to MIT. He dismissed most questions from students and while we were riding back in my friend's car (with Richard Stallman in the front seat)…
why is that? what makes something relevant? I think just the opposite - it's increasingly relevant, even though I don't follow his ethical system. how is your single conversation with him relevant? It doesn't seem relevant at all, sample size of 1... maybe it would be if you bothered to tell us what he dismissed. This last part seems disingenuous, but how so? I'll grant you this: he hasn't said much that's new and al…
His solution to "not using Uber because it's a security nightmare" was literally to bum a ride from someone in the audience who happened to be my friend.
He also had this hilarious policy / agreement with ACM to have some kid giving him a new glass of tea every 1.4 minutes or something. It was petty and weird.
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#8Stallman's computing page has been up for years. How is it now appearing on HN?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
why is that? what makes something relevant? I think just the opposite - it's increasingly relevant, even though I don't follow his ethical system. how is your single conversation with him relevant? It doesn't seem relevant at all, sample size of 1... maybe it would be if you bothered to tell us what he dismissed. This last part seems disingenuous, but how so? I'll grant you this: he hasn't said much that's new and al…
His solution to "not using Uber because it's a security nightmare" was literally to bum a ride from someone in the audience who happened to be my friend. He also had this hilarious policy / agreement with ACM to have some kid giving him a new glass of tea every 1.4 minutes or something. It was petty and weird.
How does being weird make his views on computing irrelevant?
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#10There's something very enticing about someone who's principled and has managed to stick to their principles. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it in Stallman's case. I wish the world had stuck to his principles, but it clearly hasn't and it's unlikely it will ever inch closer. That's not to claim that he should reverse course or abandon his position.
It does transform his stance from a political one to a personal one: he's choosing what he'll allow in his life or not, consequences be damned. I've tried this in my own life with varying degrees of intensity and success, and I'm not sure if I'm jealous of Stallman or not. Is he lonely? Has he missed out on people or experiences? (almost certainly) Do his stances give him the fulfillment he believes they do?