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What makes Stallman a creep? I believe many people are judging him by his nerdy look and personality, the guy is really just being himself and not putting up any masks, i would argue any other acting elegant for social status is a bigger creep
https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
It's unfortunately kind of well know that he's a creepy dude. I can't cite specific examples but I have heard pretty credible reasons to believe this in the past.
He does good work in the FOSS community and has been correct about basically everything he predicted regarding the future of proprietary software.
But somewhat ironically, it seems like every facet of his life is filled with kinda creepy anti-social behaviour.
what's your definition of creepy?
One example
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman-resigns-mit-free-software-foundation-epstein
Edit: I guess people don't think that is creepy to condone and excuse sexual assault against children.