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Thoughts on Richard Stallman

Things he said were taken out of context, when he was just hairsplitting definitions. Of course the cancelling of him was wrong. What gets me about this is that he doesn't seemed to have fully learned his lesson. You'd think he'd understand the danger of the woke left after getting cancelled by a mob of these people. Yet he still panders to the shitlib ideology.

I remember seeing him spewing the same propaganda as the media regarding Putin, Assad, etc. Whether or not he supports military action against them, this rhetoric helps fan the flames of justification for military intervention.

He seems to be on the side of proxies that the United States and others are funding to overthrow legitimate governments.

This goes to show that you should never make someone your one stop shop for information. He's largely correct on the issue of free software, despite some of the differences I have with him on even that issue. He's correct also on issues of privacy. However, he should be largely disregarded when it comes to politics in general.

He also doesn't seem to understand that his rules regarding free software are not an all encompassing ethic regarding the software landscape. Red Hat attempting control of the entire landscape with systemd is unjust, and removes user choice and freedom when it's being imposed as a dependency by package maintainers and major distributions of the GNU/Linux system.

More niche distros having to use increasingly complicated workarounds isn't an argument that there is enough freedom any more than Louis Rossmann being able to do complicated repairs on MacBooks means that Apple is friendly to Right to Repair.