Richard Stallman a MAJOR Reason why Free Software's popularity is NOSEDIVING.

http://www.datamation.com/feature/7...nce_2.html

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As founder and main speaker for the FSF, Richard Stallman has played
a major role in the history of free software. Nothing will ever
change that.

But Stallman's stubbornness, which helped the ideas of free software
to take hold and flourish, now appear to many as a handicap.
Stallman consistently displays a fixation on definition that
distracts from his main points about the need for software freedom.
These days, too, he never seems to miss a chance to criticize the
open source philosophy, even when the criticism isn't relevant to
his point.

Even worse, Stallman has a history of making gaffs, then refusing to
admit that he was wrong. In July 2009, he created a controversy by
refusing to back down after a sexist remark he made at the Desktop
Summit in Gran Canaria. More recently, Stallman remarked about Steve
Jobs that, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone," then
expanded on his remarks a few weeks later. The problem was not that
he was wrong about Jobs popularizing proprietary technology, but
that many people felt that his remarks were tasteless and crass when
speaking about the recently dead, and that a leader should have
shown more sense than to make them.

Stallman is far from the whole of the free software movement, but
many people judge the movement unfavorably because of him.

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