I’ve never been one to care about this sort of shit happening to famous people, but the work of RMS has provided me with so much. It has allowed me to have a hobby, it has enabled my career. I appreciate his unwavering dedication towards his ideals. I wish I could be this dedicated…
One of the comments on TheReg hit me hard:
His absolutist, no-compromise attitude to software freedom has benefited all of us, even if sadly it’s earned him detractors on the way.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
If ever that quote applied to anyone, it’s RMS. I’m more on the esr side of things, but you can’t deny that without RMS we probably would be more locked into walled gardens than we are now.