On November 4, 2017 8:29:00 PM GMT+03:00, Simon Hobson <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>m712 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'd really like to meet Richard Stallman in person.  I hope I can,
>someday.
>
>I've met him briefly when he did a speaking tour in the UK.
>He has a reputation for being direct and taking questions literally -
>and that's how I found him. I assume it's just the way he is, some of
>us are like that. I think that's part of the reason many people
>"dislike" him - if you don't recognise that he's just being direct,
>some mike mistake it for rudeness.
I am also like that, I like to be blunt people. I also only use free software, 
so I think we'd be good buddies ;-)
>But regardless of what you think of him, and his very rigid attitude to
>freedom in software, without him (and others with similar views) we
>certainly would not be where we are now.
I do not doubt that. I have an immense amount of respect for the GNU Project 
and the FSF. One of my life goals is to get hired at FSF, in fact.

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