Comment 71933

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted December 06, 2011 at 14:04:04 in reply to Comment 71932

Yeah, I thought about listing RMS, but RMS is a bit more controversial than Linus. I mean, Linus is the kind of slightly-curmudgeonly coder we can all relate to.

RMS, for all his achievements, is a lot harder to love. He's kind of the extreme case of a lot of negative geek stereotypes. I mean, his movement changed the world of software forever, and he's a great man for it... but he's pretty far out there.

I actually kind of feel bad for him - I mean, I get the impression he'd rather be banging out code and running projects and generally avoiding the public speaking circuit if he had the choice, but he does it for the sake of the movement he believes in.

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