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by john4532452 1909 days ago
> I agree that Stallman is probably not the best PR person for the FSF, but that's not what this is about.

I truly don't understand this. I am neither autistic or even a 10x programmer.

RMS is such a genius dude who can match an entire Symbolics programming team that had genius and legendary hackers. His math skills are superior even among the elite math students at MIT(source at end [1]). RMS wrote the first version of gcc and many other utilties and *yet* despite all of his talents and genius gifts he started FSF and choose to remain poor because of his strong belief in freedom. This is immensely inspiring.

Its very rare to see a genius and who scarifies their life for a cause in a single person. The people i can think in this category are Noam Chomsky, Aaron Swartz.

How can any other person being the face of FSF a better fit?

[1] https://sagitter.fedorapeople.org/faif-2.0.pdf