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That's because despite his dogged persistence on the FSF GNU bit, he really doesn't care about Freedom.
You think what he has quite literally dedicated his life to doesn't count simply because he didn't grant you permission to put words in his mouth?
Typical Stallman... taking everything to the extreme and suffering the consequences. It's the burden of the idealist.
I admire his willingness to stand to what he believes. Also, extremisms aside, he's contributed a lot to the community.
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Good point, and I agree. People should always be free to get at the data they have on a website, and move to an alternative website. That's certainly something worth fighting for.
Is locked in data really a bad thing? We all have to make money somehow. I'd rather website owners had real incentive to please their users, and being able to make money is a good incentive. I don't see how free data can really be relevant on the web. If facebook want to do something to drive users away, or ristrict users freedom, that's up to them. If they do it enough, someone else will setup a rival website that p…
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"I also have not net connection much of the time" Even that's quirky, when you can hardly buy a phone without Internet capability these days. You have to be deliberately avoiding a connection.
Is it really? Don't you get sick of being "always on" sometimes? Perhaps the averse reactions here have something to do with too many of us living in densely populated/over-populated or even over-stimulated environments; the short-attention-span generation?
RMS is just being ornery.
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The first part is true, but in general the second part is false; in general, there is a big difference between the people who are most famous in their lifetimes and those who are most famous later from that period.
Exactly so. George Brandes was orders of magnitude more famous than Nietzsche in the 1890s. There are countless such examples.