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Apologize for what? What in his statement should be apologize for? It's an op-ed that the author himself qualifies with a fairly clear sense of wat exists "on the ground" and his opinion about it, both positive and negative.

Frankly, Stallman has been a boat-anchor to his own cause more than much else for a while, and he is IMHO a vile little imp; his poor hygiene, both physical and emotional, and his chronic id-salving, went through their mileage before the current millennium started, let alone a few decades in.



>his poor hygiene

The social hygiene movement represented a rationalized, professionalized version of the earlier social purity movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hygiene_movement


Thing veiled lookism.

People here think he must be autistic and hard to work with because he's ugly and old and dirty.

Maybe you (the collective you) should actually stop assuming that dirty people are incompetent.




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