"it makes stallman looks pathetic (no eye contact)"
I used to hang around the FSF/Media Labs frequently as a teenager in the early to mid 1990s (the era this story is from) and met rms several times and this description didn't seem out of place to me at all.
rms is many things, some of them quite admirable, but he is also one of the most socially awkward penguins you could ever meet.
Don't doubt at all. Just tried to pick up one example from the text on each comment i made... That one wasn't the most fortunate i agree. But the comments aim to encompass the text as a whole
I used to hang around the FSF/Media Labs frequently as a teenager in the early to mid 1990s (the era this story is from) and met rms several times and this description didn't seem out of place to me at all.
rms is many things, some of them quite admirable, but he is also one of the most socially awkward penguins you could ever meet.