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Although he is a bit radical, I have a harder time trying to comprehend how people put up with Windows nowadays.

It feels like people will put up with anything that MS makes up. If Windows asked for a credit card number, people would happily offer one.

Someone's gotta push the extremes so most of us can exist in the middle and still make progress.

I actually like that there are people out there like the dude/RMS.

I don’t necessarily want to emulate him or hire people like him, but I’m glad he’s here and grateful for what he’s done.

I think that if you try to grind down the rough parts of people like RMS, you lose the genius. So I take people for a whole given that their net benefit is enough and they don’t have some catastrophic flaw.