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Re: Nuance Regarding RMS



Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 17:47:08+0300, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> Hi Barak,
> 
> thanks a lot for this nuanced view.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 11:51:59AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> >...
> > He’s remarkably stubborn in technical matters even when outside his 
> > domain of expertise and completely wrong.
> >...
> 
> The traits that make RMS appear awkward are the same that made him 
> create the GNU project and the FSF, and without RMS being the way
> he is Debian would not exist.

Should it be true, I still don't see how this should excuse him for his
behaviour.

Past great actions are not any immunity totem for bad shit we do. The
same as when one tries to improve they tend to ask people forgetting
about their former bad shit.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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