[rando832]

So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone in software who's said anything offensive, including Linus, etc.

[sascha_sl]

>The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants.

Source? I have no reason to disbelieve the claim, this discussion on Wikipedia seems to correlate it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_...

Besides dismissing one person at face value... is that all you have to say about these?

[Corazoor]

Well... An anonymous source, from the internet, which itself had heard of this only through another party. Dismissing unreliable sources like that is a safe default, no?

But more to the matter at hand, Stallman himself has a story about him smelling on plants, albeit dead: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

So, the far more reliable source seems to suggest that, indeed, he doesn't fear plants.