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Free Software Magazine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clean-living-in-china dept.

EmilEifrem writes: "Why hasn't everyone submitted this story one million times? Anyway, the Free Software Magazine (FSM), issue 01 is out there. There's a column by RMS, an article about making a living with free software, a C advocacy article and even an "enterprise" section, amongst other things. Seems like a promising first issue. s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g."

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  1. Isn't that the magazine by Scratch-O-Matic · · Score: 1, Funny

    that is about to be aquired by AOL/Time Warner?

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    Evil is the money of root.
  2. Richard Stallman by mESSDan · · Score: 2, Funny
    I didn't know what RMS looked like until I read his article (his picture is up at the top right). I can really only say one thing; RMS, the 70s called, they want their shirt back. heh.

    *hides from RMS' militia*

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  3. Full circle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now we have come full circle, with the chinese lecturing us about freedom! What is to come of this? Will bejing soon be filled with the masses wearing their "RMS" suits (dirty jeans and a t-shirt) chanting "proprietary pig" in front of the Microsoft embassy?

  4. rejection by Alien54 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why hasn't everyone submitted this story one million times

    Geeks are sensitive types, and many have problems dealing with the fear of rejection

    ;-)

    Looks good. The book that is reviewed, "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist " looks interesting as well.

    [puts into bookmark file]

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
    1. Re:rejection by Lars+Rindsig · · Score: 2, Funny
      The book that is reviewed, "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist " looks interesting as well.
      Oh, how to think like a computer scientist? Here I was, thinking it was RMS's latest opus - How to Look Like a Computer Scientist. My bad.
  5. How much.. by kick_in_the_eye · · Score: 1, Funny

    are they charging for it?

  6. GNU and W3C Standards by AirLace · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've noticed they've placed a W3C XHTML 1.0 logo at the bottom of their index page. This is a mark that shows the designer has conformed to Web standards and provided a basic level of accessibility for disabled users. It typically links to the W3C page validator. They probably put it there to show that GNU supports open standards, but the page is in fact nothing like well formed XHTML, and contains numerous basic HTML errors that could make the page inaccessible to page-readers for the blind, for example.

    I'm not saying everyone who puts up a webpage should have to write perfect HTML, but why do they feel the need to put the logo of compliance there if it's just a lie? I know GNU supports open standards by principle, but they should do more than just pay lip-service. Either take the logo off the page, or fix the HTML!

  7. FSM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that related to FHM? :-)

  8. "s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g" ?? by rbp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stallman's column will read "bla bla bla GNU GNU Linux bla bla bla..." :p