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Richard Stallman: “I Wished I Had Killed Myself”

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Glyn Mody
Apr 20, 2010

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Moody
for this link. ]

“So I was naturally intrigued to read Levy’s recent
encounters with some of the key hackers he wrote about back then,
in his new Wired article “Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans,
Hackers, Idealists”.

“Sadly, it is rather disappointing, the meandering parts never
quite adding up to any satisfactory whole (and the section on Gates
seems overly complaisant.) But it’s worth reading (a) for the
photos of hackers as they were then, and (b) for the following
revelatory confession of RMS”


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