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As someone who was verbally abused and publicly insulted by RMS, I'm okay with this.

The man that did the heavy lifting to create the open source operating system would predictably have personality quirks (or even worse), we should just be doing what our ancestors did, make fun of him and complain behind his back (half-joking) but to cancel his appearances in which he'd discuss his professional career and thoughts on computer science, is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

this man is not a normal man. He's a brilliant programmer. We shouldn't expect everyone to be normal. He is the definition of fringe and weird.

It is an interesting question, how much you separate the personality from the accomplishments.

I've been using Emacs since the late 1970s (actually, an Emacs clone, since 1990). It's a great editor, and he wrote a lot of it.

But I won't support or condone his behavior, nor am I interested in anything he has to say.

What happened?

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