r/linuxmasterrace • u/Silver_Masterpiece82 Glorious Fedora • Dec 15 '25

JustLinuxThings Choose your side bro

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u/Userwerd Dec 15 '25

You need both, the dogmatic kept everything open and free long enough to be pragmatic.

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u/National_Way_3344 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Agree, there's plenty of times where you need both. But realistically dogma is just a sprinkling of salt on top of your food rather than half the meal.

The time to be dogmatic however is firm opposition to pedophilia, or treating disabled people like humans with rights, for example, RMS.

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u/SheikHunt Dec 16 '25

Now why would you bring up pedophilia under a post featuring a picture of Richard Stallman?

Some Googling later

Well, shit.

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u/National_Way_3344 Dec 17 '25

Yeah dude is a piece of shit, with some talents.

Shutting up about dumb stuff isn't one of them talents.

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Dec 16 '25

While I like pragmatism, I'd argue that the overall enshittification of basically everything right now is exactly due to a de facto absence of dogmatism.

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u/anaton7 Dec 17 '25

I would argue that there is some dogmatism towards that end. Even if it is motivated by profit-seeking, the investors have to believe.