<div dir="ltr">I edited a piece Stallman wrote for Linux.com. He insisted that if he were to write something for us it be run verbatim. Well, I'm an editor, I have to edit, and I found two things that ought to be changed. I explained in an email what they were, and he (grumpily, it seemed to me) acceded. That was my only firsthand interaction with him.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:07 PM Tom Geller via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Unrelated, but I know someone who claimed to pursue (and bed) Stallman as a self-proclaimed "starfucker". They're a fairly well-known journalist now. (I won't say who.) They had nothing bad to say, but I think they didn't really care about his personality.<div><br></div><div>In my one interaction with RMS he was an insulting prick, so it doesn't surprise me at all to hear others report ill of him.<br><div>
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