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RMS is usually correct. Annoying, offensive, unpragmatic, undiplomatic and confrontational, but in the end he's usually right in his basic analyses of the problem. Often well before anyone else even recognizes there is a problem.


No. He's completely off his nut about blobs, cloud computing and a host of other topics. Very few people use a distribution that he doesn't have issues with.


Your third sentence doesn't support your second.

I use closed source software, but that doesn't mean I think he's wrong on his overall analysis of its downsides.


The ends don't justify the means.




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