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1. Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Fontana

   @fontana, that's a good point. He wasn't famous *for* !FaiF software though, when he started doing !FaiF software stuff.

   Saturday, 16-Apr-11 02:35:33 UTC from web
   • Michael Sandahl Richard Fontana

     ♻ @fontana: @bkuhn hmm, fairly certain I once heard someone we both know say that about someone else we both know #cryptic_dents

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:14:54 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Michael Sandahl , Richard Fontana

     @michaelsandahl, yeah, that might as well have been a privmsg. *I* clearly know who @fontana means, but no one else does. :)

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:19:26 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I'm 98% sure. I'll privmsg you and see if I'm right. I think I heard the same thing said at one point.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:21:45 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, the place I'm corruptible isn't w/ money & power, it's purely popularity. I have to be careful with that one myself.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:30:09 UTC
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   • ashcrow

     @bkuhn Same here. It's an easy vice to succumb to.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:40:06 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn ashcrow

     @ashcrow, well, it's not a horrible vice, unless you actually succumb to corruption to achieve it. That's where it's dangerous.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:41:22 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, most important !FaiF things have been done by people who aren't popular. Few popular people do anything useful.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 01:53:13 UTC
   • Tekk Has Moved

     @bkuhn see:linus, I'm sure he'd love to be able to do kernel hacking but he can't anymore because of trying to hold it together

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 02:14:34 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Stallman Political Notes , Tekk Has Moved

     @tekk, I think it an be argued that the most important contributions Linus made to !FaiF was before he was famous. Same prob. true of @rms.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 02:17:29 UTC
   • Tekk Has Moved

     @bkuhn with rms the issue is his arthritis, I think.

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 02:19:36 UTC
   • Tekk Has Moved

     @bkuhn he seemed perfectly productive even after the attention he got, until that

     Saturday, 16-Apr-11 02:19:49 UTC