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I agree that he was pretty reasonable in the case of this article, but he is a bit crazy by most people's standards. A friend of mine has worked for the FSF and told me that Stallman won't even use the World Wide Web! Anything he needs looked up he has coworkers do for him because they're foolish enough to trust that nonfree web sites aren't malicious.



It's not strictly true that he only has other people do it for him:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979

As far as the internet, though, as I told a friend long ago - Richard Stallman doesn't need the internet. The internet needs Richard Stallman.


He posted that to a newsgroup, not the Web. I'm sure he wasn't using the Web to do that, especially given the content of that post!




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