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Comment by asrt

This guy made GCC and Emacs. GCC in particular has shaped how most software has been compiled for decades.

His operating system, GNU, is the de-facto UNIX implementation and runs many critical systems around the world.

Anyone who claims that the guy is unlikeable has never truly bothered to hear him speak and isntrad relies on what they've been told by malicious actors. Stallman doesn't attack other people or ideologies.

If anything his biggest mistake was using Linux as a kernel for people decided to call the GNU operating system "Linux" and it eventually took most of the funding and development away from the OS and its ideology.

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