From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Jan 26, 2026 at 8:54:46 AM MST, "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?   
      
   Happy to include it. Here are specific quotes:   
      
   "necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even   
   incest and pedophilia... should be legal as long as no one is coerced.   
   They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness."   
   https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html   
      
   "When making pornography involves real abuse of real children, those who   
   distribute it under a business relationship with the abusers arguably   
   participate in the abuse. They could be prosecuted for doing so.   
   However, that does not excuse censorship. No matter how disgusting   
   published works might be, censorship is more disgusting."   
   https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html   
      
   "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children."   
   https://stallman.org/notes/2006-may-aug.html   
      
   "Every secondary school should aim for all of its graduates to be   
   fully capable in sexuality; none should be excluded from participation   
   in sex due to lack of proper experience. Therefore, the school should   
   have several sex teachers, adults with whom students can learn to be   
   comfortable with sex and confident in pleasing their lovers. They would   
   also learn good habits for avoidance of disease and pregnancy."   
   https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#14_November_2014   
   %28Teacher_prosecuted_for_sex_with_student%29   
      
   "necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even   
   incest and pedophilia... should be legal as long as no one is coerced."   
   https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html   
      
   "This "extreme pornography" law needs to be repealed, not just reformed.   
   Various kinds of animals, including cats, dogs, gorillas, and dolphins,   
   sometimes enjoy and even ask for sexual activities with humans. To   
   prohibit the act, or images of it, is sheer authoritarian prudery.   
   Necrophilia can't hurt the person who died (nothing can), so there is no   
   reason to prohibit the act, let alone images of it."   
   https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html   
      
   "This "extreme pornography" law needs to be repealed, not just reformed.   
   Various kinds of animals, including cats, dogs, gorillas, and dolphins,   
   sometimes enjoy and even ask for sexual activities with humans. To prohibit   
   the act, or images of it, is sheer authoritarian prudery. Necrophilia can't   
   hurt the person who died (nothing can), so there is no reason to prohibit the   
   act, let alone images of it."   
   https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html   
      
   > It was in your last message Michael.   
   > Is it because in the past you have supported incest?   
      
   No. Have you? Do you now?   
      
      
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