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bishbosh | 1 year ago

I wish we could stop with the deification of this creep as though he was the only person arguing that proprietary software has concerns.

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createaccount99|1 year ago

Sober take, though the ad hominem wasn't needed.

smegsicle|1 year ago

you can just go around calling people creeps now for being neurodivergent?

krapp|1 year ago

You can just go around excusing creepy behavior as "being neurodivergent?"

As far as I know, the only person who has diagnosed Richard Stallman with anything is Richard Stallman, and I doubt he has even an honorary doctorate that would qualify him to make such a diagnosis. Maybe he is neurodivergent, maybe he isn't. If he were, that wouldn't excuse his behavior, as plenty of neurodivergent people don't act the way he does. It's not a "get out of social consequences free" card.

And honestly, if Richard Stallman is so neurodivergent that he isn't capable of interacting with people in a reasonable way, despite being middle aged and no doubt having been told about his behavior many, many times, he shouldn't be in the position he's in.