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"Quite the upstanding citizen."

In the very next sentence, Stallman suggests that you borrow one from someone, and in the sentence after that that you use a public library. I think your out-of-context quote is a dishonest attempt to portray Stallman as suggesting something he did not. Dishonest, childish, and thoroughly contemptible. I'm not a Stallman fan by any means [0], but I doubt he would stoop to this level of dishonesty to attempt to discredit anyone.

The rest of your comment is also wrong and confused, but I can't tell if it's also from dishonesty or simply stupidity. (If I must: he is suggesting an apology would be appropriate for a real injunction that her lawyers actually got, not for "something she never did". For example.)

[0] http://lee-phillips.org/StallmanOnFinkelstein.html



Fair enough, but I still find the philosophy behind it repulsive. "Don't pay for it, just use the one that somebody else paid for". He follows the same idea with cell phones, and with food (I've also interacted with him at bars after conferences and he hardly pays for his drinks either).

If a friend of yours starts showing such behavior, you will quickly cut them off and think they are jerks. And rightfully so.




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