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If I was using Richard Stallman as a guidebook for my life, that would signal a particularly depressing existence.


It's strange to see you downvoted. I can't understand why anyone would treat RMS as anything but entertainment and occasionally curious ideas. I'd never take serious life advice from him.


Like it or not, RMS changed the world. In my opinion to the better.


No doubt about that. However, he is by far not the only person to do so and have terrible life skills (in the sense that others should emulate them), e.g. Grothendieck, Tesla, Gödel..


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