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So, basically, exactly what the article says, a big nothing. The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants. Sarah Mei appears to have no special reason to hate rms, shes a well known person who is extremely negative about anyone in software who's said anything offensive, including Linus, etc.

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>The plants thing is stupid, rms doesn't hate plants.

Source? I have no reason to disbelieve the claim, this discussion on Wikipedia seems to correlate it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman/Archive_...

Besides dismissing one person at face value... is that all you have to say about these?

Well... An anonymous source, from the internet, which itself had heard of this only through another party. Dismissing unreliable sources like that is a safe default, no?

But more to the matter at hand, Stallman himself has a story about him smelling on plants, albeit dead: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

So, the far more reliable source seems to suggest that, indeed, he doesn't fear plants.

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