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That no one listens to Richard Stallman anymore is hardly surprising.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in fact, the last time I had a real job (at Linuxcare, which was a dot-com that collapsed in the dot-bust), I was working a little late one evening when Stallman came into the office.
This was an open office plan. Plenty of space. Plenty of air. I could still smell his body odor at a distance of, I’m guessing, 50 feet. Plenty of people were still fawning over him nonetheless, even as I heard unsavory stories, including of sexual harassment.
He’s definitely not what I would call a savory character.
That said, no matter how disgusted I am by him personally, sometimes, it is worthwhile to go beyond dislike and look into the work. It would not surprise me, even for a millisecond, if he’d touched on this issue somewhere along the way.
That no one listens to Richard Stallman anymore is hardly surprising.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in fact, the last time I had a real job (at Linuxcare, which was a dot-com that collapsed in the dot-bust), I was working a little late one evening when Stallman came into the office.
This was an open office plan. Plenty of space. Plenty of air. I could still smell his body odor at a distance of, I’m guessing, 50 feet. Plenty of people were still fawning over him nonetheless, even as I heard unsavory stories, including of sexual harassment.
He’s definitely not what I would call a savory character.
That said, no matter how disgusted I am by him personally, sometimes, it is worthwhile to go beyond dislike and look into the work. It would not surprise me, even for a millisecond, if he’d touched on this issue somewhere along the way.