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To: plsvn

Stallman was cancelled as an sensitivity challenged old white guy.


12 posted on 06/30/2020 5:51:42 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: The Free Engineer
Stallman was cancelled as an sensitivity challenged old white guy.

Sensitivity challenged? That's not the Stallman I read about over the years!

BTW, I still use his EMACS editor. Never took to vi. EMACS just always made sense to me as a particularly useful text editor.

16 posted on 06/30/2020 6:00:45 AM PDT by plsvn
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To: The Free Engineer
Stallman was cancelled as an sensitivity challenged old white guy.

On one hand I'm outraged that MIT and FSF folded over such obviously false accusations. OTOH I'm have trouble preventing bouts of uncontrollable laughter because I definitely recall him as a devout observer of all things politically correct. I remember having a great conversation with him in the 90's where I realized the only common ground we had was the unwavering dedication to the four freedoms. I told him as much and I hoped that his personal politics wouldn't hurt the FSF. But this outcome is beyond what I imagined.

At this point I'm afraid the integrity of the FSF will be tainted by association with corporate interests and it will become as challenged as the Mozilla foundation at maintaining a separate agenda from it's corporate sponsors.

28 posted on 06/30/2020 7:47:02 AM PDT by no-s
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