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   Brock McNuggets  wrote in   
   news:6976d601$2$18$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:   
      
   > On Jan 25, 2026 at 7:38:18 PM MST, "CrudeSausage" wrote   
   > <6976d39a$2$23$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:08:50 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 1/25/2026 10:06 AM, Stallman Lackey Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud)   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> the great Dr. Richard M. Stallman   
   >>>   
   >>> He's NOT great, and he's NOT a Doctor.   
   >>   
   >> He's definitely not a doctor, but he did get an honourary doctorate.   
   >> As for him being great or not, I will submit a question: would the   
   >> world of technology naturally gravitate toward producing open-source   
   >> software had it not been for Richard Stallman. There is reason to   
   >> believe that Shareware would have existed even if GNU hadn't, but I   
   >> doubt that would have resulted in a free operating system with its   
   >> free set of applications, and the dogma that software should strive   
   >> to open up its code.   
   >   
   > You can grant Stallman influence without turning it into sainthood.   
   >   
   > Yes, he mattered early: the GPL and copyleft accelerated one path to a   
   > free OS stack. But the larger trend toward open source was already   
   > underway via Unix culture, academia, BSD, the internet, and later   
   > Linux, Apache, Git, etc. The ecosystem converged on open source   
   > because it works, not because FSF dogma won.   
   >   
   > And "greatness" is not just being early. Stallman repeatedly argued   
   > for legalizing or normalizing pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia,   
   > and minimized harm to children -– not as one-offs, but consistently   
   > over decades. You can credit the license without granting the man   
   > moral authority.   
   >   
      
   Why did you leave incest out of your list of Stallman's sick ideas?   
   It was in your last message Michael.   
   Is it because in the past you have supported incest?   
      
   The Internet has a very long memory snit. You need to understand and live   
   in reality of what you are. A goofball.   
      
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