On: That Moment When RMS Walks Into Your Hackathon

[sneak]

That's what all of these articles about RMS kind of approximately indicate - he has a point, and his point being completely unassailably valid doesn't detract whatsoever from his being a despicable human being.

[belorn → sneak]

Isn't the word "despicable human being" just a tiny bit hyperbole and untrue?

Has he hurt anyone? killed? imprisoned? injured? threatened? Stalked? preyed upon? or been in general mean to someone?

If being of a different opinion and expressing it is enough to be labeled despicable human being, I don't know if I would call that fair.

For me, that's like calling Linus an despicable human being for criticizing Gnome 3. It's a really strange use of the word despicable.

[tommorris → sneak]

Sure, and I think that it's a great example of where RMS and other more fundamentalist free software people could engage. Go along to hack days and show the things that the free software community are working on.

Not everyone is going to go along with Stallman's free software puritanism. But a lot of those people produce free and open source software, or would be willing to help.