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When people take the phrase: " Stallman was right, as usual." and suggest that this is a claim of infallibility. Overstating one's case doesn't win any new friends.

The claim is that on these issues Stallman is more usually right than wrong. Do you have anything that suggests otherwise?




'As usual' is unnecessary unless you're trying to passively aggressively say "I told you so," or imply that people should blindly accept everything that Stallman says.


I would hardly tell anyone to blindly accept everything or anything Stallman (or for the matter, any charismatic leader) says.

However, "I told you so" is a phrase much needed these days... specially directed towards people that insist on making the same kind of mistakes that drove us to the mess we're right now.


I usually avoid such comments, but: the only person in this thread criticizing Stallman is you. Did he tell you your dog was ugly once or something?




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