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I'm more bothered by rms, being the face of the GNU project, FSF etc not making an effort to maintain personal grooming and also social skills.

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To be honest I think the person he is is part of why the FSF GNU succeeded in some sense, he is a radical and often radicals can further change more quickly than any other kind of person.

That said he is very weird and some part of me thinks he would be annoying to hang around with but he always seem to be at least somewhat polite online.

Online, in my emails with him he has never been rude, always factual and not ignorant. In my discussions with those who've met him in person, paint a very different story. He does little towards the causes he believes in by being so anti-social as he has been renown for.

RMS's forays into politeness are a rather recent endeavor. He used to be particularly nasty about stupid things like GNU/Linux instead of Linux.

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