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by r3856283 3y ago
> You don't believe me? That's an extremely weird reaction Really? Let me spell it out for you. You wrote: > The 100 or so developers all left the talk in silence, mourning the loss of the hero we had imagined him to be. Tha
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by r3856283 3y ago
I don't believe your account of this 2009 talk, most definitely do not believe your suggestion of what 100 other people thought is anywhere close to accurate. > To those who say we need him for GNU outreach: we absolutely don't
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by r3856283 4y ago
There is a lot misinformation about RMS out there, you've posted some of it. This addresses some of it https://stallmansupport.org/ "Georgia Lyle", there is no such person, the Georgia you are thinking of wro
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by r3856283 4y ago
> they do represent a floor of acceptable behavior for people working together in a group Huh? Working together in a group at a company does not imply any kind of standard for behavior, although companies pretend outwardly that there is
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by r3856283 4y ago
I will also point out that this is an anonymous blog post from someone who has published no way to contact them privately and has never posted to the emacs mailing list (at least from the domain of their blog). It is a one-sided view, and I
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by r3856283 4y ago
> I went super minimal with it > sometimes you just want them to solve the problem for you as fast and efficient as possible. Your site displays a blank page without running javascript. You are a long way off from efficient or super m
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by r3856283 5y ago
> Did he ever correct his statements about no women volunteering to work on GCC? He wasn't aware of women working on GCC. There's nothing to correct. I'm not aware of women working on GCC. GNU has thousands of people worki
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by r3856283 5y ago
He expressed disappointment to a girl in ~1970, in a weird unintimdating way, and it's still haunting him.
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by r3856283 5y ago
The parent was edited. Thanks.
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by r3856283 5y ago
I wonder what you are talking about? He got a ton of bad press that no one wanted to be associated with, but when it came down to the communities he leads, they were largely supportive of him. GNU is a collection of programs that publicly a
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by r3856283 5y ago
Sorry. Edited.
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by r3856283 5y ago
Not quite. Someone vandalized his name card adding the hot ladies part and took a picture. That was never him. And you turned the quote "pranced around the tables" to "pranced around on the tables." ... why?
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by r3856283 5y ago
He didn't work with or for RMS longer than any other programmer, there are many who have longer. Gerald J. Sussman is a programmer and hired him at MIT and is still on the board of FSF and still working with him, that is over 40 years.
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by r3856283 5y ago
But after someone read it they spoke to him about it and he realized he was wrong and published a correction right along side it and that was many years ago. You should have mentioned that. If he hadn't said it publicly, and only said