On 9/23/19 10:58 PM, Mike C. wrote:
I think it's rather hypocritical Bushnell complains about
"abusive language, and toxic environments" while saying people should
"STFU" and calling members of the Free Software community adolescent and
childish.
The quality of his article is something that belongs in the
opinion section of a paper.
That's a reasonable opinion. Not one that I agree with because Bushnell was
referring to Richard Stallman specifically and not to people in general.
It was a criticism of Stallman's inability to focus on the important issues
and priorities of the MIT Media Lab and the FOSS movement. It wasn't a
directive as another PLUG list member used it.
This is precisely why I changed the subject to STFU / RMS.
As Bushnell stated he's clearly brilliant but also a tragic figure. Imagine
if Noam Chomsky or Stephen Hawking behaved this way.
I think his comments were also aimed at people like Linus Torvalds who has
recently publicly apologized for his abusive behaviour.
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Oh. I can see why you responded to my attitude the way that you did now.
I did not realize my comment had made headlines. Purely coincidental,
whoops!
I guess I should step aside while all the extroverts battle it out.
Every time Medium.com does one of these opinion pieces people start
running around in a psychotic frenzy, so maybe one day I'll learn to be
more proactive about seeing these coming. Anyone who utters the acronym
'stfu' right now is gonna be auto-labeled as a stallman sympathizer.
It's too late for me, save yourselves!
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