Nobody is bashing Stallman, least of all that Guardian article. I'm honestly not sure what weev is trying to white knight here, but the post is so hilariously off base that I lost what respect for him I had.
The point made in the G by an interviewee (not the author) about the Bash codebase and undermining "all bugs are shallow" is actually quite good in the face of two giant counterexamples, and I would have liked to have seen Stallman counter that. He didn't, and instead took another opportunistic shot at proprietary software, just like the FSF's tone-deaf statement.
That weev would get The World vs. Stallman from that, then invest his time into a defense of poor Stallman and shame the world for not giving him money (when his politics and ideals create an economic scenario where he is unlikely to ever receive money from those who benefit most, and ostensibly he accepted this decades ago), is just bananas. I will continue to criticize whatever I like, bash's codebase and GNU process potentially being on the list, and I do not need weev's permission or acceptance to do so.
Maybe if we on HN and in Silicon Valley culture found his racial epithet organization amusing, he wouldn't have to talk about us like a lower class.
Didn't say it was his. He can comment on it when the topic is process failures that led us to this situation (not saying whether there were any, mind, just that's the topic).
The point made in the G by an interviewee (not the author) about the Bash codebase and undermining "all bugs are shallow" is actually quite good in the face of two giant counterexamples, and I would have liked to have seen Stallman counter that. He didn't, and instead took another opportunistic shot at proprietary software, just like the FSF's tone-deaf statement.
That weev would get The World vs. Stallman from that, then invest his time into a defense of poor Stallman and shame the world for not giving him money (when his politics and ideals create an economic scenario where he is unlikely to ever receive money from those who benefit most, and ostensibly he accepted this decades ago), is just bananas. I will continue to criticize whatever I like, bash's codebase and GNU process potentially being on the list, and I do not need weev's permission or acceptance to do so.
Maybe if we on HN and in Silicon Valley culture found his racial epithet organization amusing, he wouldn't have to talk about us like a lower class.