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by mcpackieh 1035 days ago
Personally, I'm dazzled by Stallman's singing and dancing skills.

Join us now and share the software,

You'lll be free, hackers, you'll be freee

Also by his uncanny tendency to be proven correct in matters concerning software freedom. His coding expertise are tertiary at most. Honestly, I never see people praise RMS's coding expertise, where are you even getting that idea from? I don't think you get it why people like RMS.
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rvnx 1035 days ago
You just pinpointed the problem.

He is good at one domain, and then by cognitive bias people think he is right on everything.

It’s not true at all, and I think you have to take a bit of distance with glorifying IT personalities.

Like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stallman, and many others (especially in the VC world) it’s important to take them with a grain of salt, and not accept them as perfect nice guys because they have money (Musk) or influence (Stallman).

Otherwise they can spread dangerous ideas that normally should 100% be challenged, but that are not, due to blind acceptance.

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mcpackieh 1035 days ago
> He is good at one domain, and then by cognitive bias people think he is right on everything.

You really don't get it at all. You're out of touch. People think that Stallman is right about one thing only, software freedom, and think he's out of touch with virtually everything else.

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rvnx 1035 days ago
Well we actually somehow agree, but for different reasons.

It's good, for a second I thought you were supporting his views on non-IT topics.

The problem is that the political speeches are part of the person, and the scope way way beyond software.

They are really interleaved with (supposed) IT topics, like if IT was a bait.

Once I went to one of his conference, and I had "learnt" more about "sex" and "facism" than software engineering or freedom.

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