He's eccentric, and most people would say that his social skills are subpar. But if you spend more than a few minutes reading his emails or watching him talk you'll realize that he is most definitely /not/ an asshole.
> I've spent more time with him than I ever neeeded to as his "escort" when he talked to my university's LUG. Dude wouldn't stop staring at women's chests and left my car smelling like a barnyard. We lost female members because of him.
If you're going to make an accusation against without any evidence, I figured I might link this website with a compilation of accusations that came up during the cruel smear campaign against him, and their debunkings.
I'm not saying that you're lying, just offering both sides of the story to whoever else is reading. Most of the accusations against him have been shown to be misrepresented, greatly exaggerated, or straight-up false.
> "I don't do smalltalk" means "You are not worthy to communicate to me"
Isn’t that pure assumption on your part? It could mean ‘I am unable to do small talk’, which is true for many people, especially people on the spectrum, it could have been situationally specific with details the top comment left out, it could be because he prefers to discuss computing, or because (like many people) he truly dislikes empty conversation and has a lot of people trying to talk to him. That little quote taken out of context does not imply or communicate anything about worthiness. Why is your assumption jumping to the most negative possible interpretation of the extremely short detail-free story, when there are simple, likely, and plausible alternatives?
I am wondering how many times you feel the need to make effectively slanderous comments about RMS throughout a comment section that is about his dealing with cancer?
> "I don't do smalltalk" means "You are not worthy to communicate to me"
Many people like smalltalk, but for many other people, smalltalk with people they do not know is very uncomfortable. Why should people from the second group feel obliged to do smalltalk just to satisfy feelings of the first group?
