[GTALUG] RMS on britannica.com

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| 
| I stumbled across this. I think it's concise and well written. Cuts through
| the fud pretty well.
| 
| https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Stallman

I don't know exactly what you are referring to as "FUD" (fear, 
uncertainty, and doubt).

The article seems to be mostly limited to non-controversial and positive 
things.  It seems to be written very sympathetically.  That's probably 
appropriate.

I certainly object to "One of the last of the “hackers,” computer 
programmers who strongly believed in freely modifying and sharing computer 
code,".  That's nonsense unless qualified somehow.

The covering of the Epstein / Minsky issue is very superficial and 
consequently probably not misleading.  I've avoided studying the 
underlying story so I cannot say much.

It has NO coverage of the other controversial issues.

So, no, I don't think that this cuts through the FUD.
I don't know that all the controversy is FUD.