1 Sep
2012
1 Sep
'12
5:41 p.m.
On 2 September 2012 00:39, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
These are the kinds of actions that make people shake their head, but
that's probably exactly what RMS wants to have happen.
I think I would probably strangle him if I had to be in the same room with
him for any length of time. But I respect that he is consistent in his
views and not hypocritical about implementing them, even if that makes him
unpopular (and even if his views are batsh*t crazy sometimes).
I have heard that he is an intolerable PITA in many ways, personally
and professionally, but he is possibly an actual genius, certainly
remarkably far-sighted and clear-sighted (at least some of the time),
and at the end of the day, without him, we wouldn't have Linux and the
computer world would be a much poorer place.
GNU/Linux is a truly transformative piece of technology, and I think
its greatest potential still lies ahead of it. I suspect it will be in
the time when the 5 billion or so people of the developing world come
online & get access to the Internet and the Web. That is going to
truly change the world, and I don't believe any proprietary tech is
going to do it.
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