Many users praised open source freedom from control along with Linux and GNU principles while defending RMS, though some objected due to personal criticisms of his behavior.
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there's a reason i use linux
it was never about being free, as in free beer it was about being free, as in freedom if you don't control your own software, if it isn't open someone is imposing control on your life. it is an act of aggression

@yacineMTB My first week or two at MIT, I was building my desktop in the common room and RMS came up and just started cracking jokes

@yacineMTB I would eat my own toe jam for this man

@yacineMTB I thought open source was cool when I was younger but thought the gnu people were weird.
I still do but I respect them more every day

@gfodor me too

@graykevinb @yacineMTB They were weird because they were trying to solve the second-order problem. Freedom isn't free.

@yacineMTB I lived in Boston for 20 years and spent a fair amount of time hanging around MIT. Don't make this man a poster child for FOSS. He deserves some credit, yes, but limit it.

He slobbered all over my cyber-goth friend when she came with me to an event at Building 40. He kept on trying to get her contact info; she was married. Each time I'd see him after that, he wouldn't care what I had to say, but woud hound me about her. Yeah OK he did some stuff but I don't care to be around him as a person.

@yacineMTB you see it clearly now it doesn't stop with software

@Robert_of_Maine @yacineMTB EFF on you, Bob. RMS done paid his dues, in his own idiosyncratic way. His great insights inspired generations.
Admittedly FSF and EFF done gone perniciously woke, but it was a good run.

@yacineMTB Or let them build it first. vote for socialists and steal it from them

@yacineMTB 💯

@yacineMTB Free is love but freedom is not free

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@yacineMTB I use my 10 yr old desktop over my newer mac cuz linux

@yacineMTB linux is best

@yacineMTB "Free as in beer" isn't about governmental overreach during the prohibition, leading to people homebrewing alcohol?
Huh!

@yacineMTB I’m gonna go live in the woods

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@yacineMTB Did someone say free Bier?