From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 26 Jan 2026 15:54:46 GMT, Nobody wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I think he might be the product of incest. It is a serious problem in the   
   muhammedan community as well as with the Jews. They just can't get enough   
   of that sweet, sweet cousin vagina.   
      
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