"MIT asks brilliant asshole who wrote gcc and emacs and spends his life whining ...

povertyworld · on Sept 17, 2019

Chris Lattner also wrote a compiler and gave it away, all without defending rape. Spare me.

rrss · on Sept 17, 2019

"Brilliant asshole" was not intended as a compliment. MIT should have dissociated with Stallman decades ago.

noirscape · on Sept 17, 2019

Honestly, I was suprised to learn he still used to be around there up until recently.

Kinda undermines the entire heroic "Stallman left CSAIL to start GNU" story that is often cited as the origin point for GNU.

pseudalopex · on Sept 18, 2019

He left a paying job at CSAIL. They let him keep an office.