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by Natsu 5352 days ago
RMS is uncompromising to the point of being tactless. Always has been, based on the old email threads people pass around.

I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.

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Jobs, too. When you talking about the persons rather than what they do, I think they are more similar than they're different.

>> I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.

Macbook Air with no DVD drive. Some people thought Jobs was wrong, because it had no regard for practicality.