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GNU-Friends Interviews
Jonas Öberg writes "GNU-Friends is doing a series of interviews with long-time free software hackers that I think people would be interested in. Check out interviews with Arnold Robbins, Karl Berry, Andrew L. Moore, Guido van Rossum, David MacKenzie and Chet Ramey. More to come, but that should keep people occupied for a few minutes." The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.
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So I can't even have friends anymore, I have to have GNU/Friends? Damn you RMS!
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Silly me - I figured this wasn't really newsworthy since that site has been out for at least a month now.
Hey everybody - the colonies declared independence from Britain!
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...you would think that at least ONE of the first set of interviews could be with a girl or a woman... it's not as if there aren't any "free software hackers" who are ladies. hmm.--katie
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I read the interviews, and they don't tell you how to make GNU friends. We're stuck with our old D&D playing, zit faced, smelly friends until we can afford that 'vette.
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I wonder if the BSD people will be allowed to be interviewed. Anyway, naming this as "GNU Friends" is at least bizarre.
Who is the sexiest hacker in the BSD/Linux community? On the male side, Eric Raymond, Dick Stallman, Linus Torvald, Alan Cox, they all look terribly ugly and unattractive. Robert Love is kinda cute. Who else really could win the prize? What about female side? I can't think of anyone...
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
Well it's more informative than most posts...
The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.
Yes - GNUperfriends!
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I mean here's Gnothing there.
I tried the link and my machine can't find the name gnu-friends.org - is this a new DNS entry that just hasn't propigated to around these parts yet, or is something wrong here?
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
interviews:
Karl Berry
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The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends
Karl and the GNU-unist's
I have a few GNU/GPL friends, but unfortunately I have to share them with everyone.
what colonies !? :)
This is funny !
Dont bother to babelfish it. Its about sucking dick.
it was a joke - as in the the colonies in the new world.
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Duh, it was another joke. Never got the new about the colonies in the first place ....
See dick run....
You obviously have no sense of humor.
are too busy looking at themselves to be bothered with things like 'coding' or 'open source'. It's the people who are ulgy/really screwed up that always get the real work done.
It's hilarious dirty hippy. Now get the fuck back to work at the commune.
That's some funny shit, man!
.you would think that at least ONE of the first set of interviews could be with a girl or a woman... it's not as if there aren't any "free software hackers" who are ladies.
Interesting? I think this comment reeks of "I'm an oppressed woman in a male-dominated industry" bullshit. C'mon - women want to be treated as equals, right? So why should there be an interview with a woman just because she's a woman and not on merits? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? (affirmative action anyone?).
I'm all for the equal treatment of EVERYONE, but when people start commenting (and then get modded "Interesting") that a small segment of a community isn't represented out of a half-dozen or so interviews, I'm prompted to rant like this.
Call me an asshole if you want, but I'm tired of this kind of discrimination-conspiracy thinking. It's only digging us into a deeper hole - not helping us get towards true equality.
Look at him and his non software/computer links and views. You can obviously tell she's his real girl-friend.
I seriously doubt that Jonas, the guy who runs GNU-Friends, is sexist in any way. And I for one would also like to see some interviews with some female hackers.
:)
If you mail the people who are running that site and suggest some female hackers who do good GPL'd work, I daresay you might actually see some of those interviews go up too. I know they'd attract a lot of attention, and they'd be a good change of pace, you're right.
Now, not to be sexist, I know that there are GNU hackers out there that are female, but I really can't think of any of their names off of the top of my head. Many people have heard of some of the core GNU hackers, but I'm having a hard time remembering the names of some of the female ones I've heard about.
Change that! Mail the people at gnu-friends and make some suggestions! Please just don't sit back and gripe about the lack of interviews with women if you're not willing to suggest anyone.
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
Only one in a hundred, if Rishab Ghosh's FLOSS Survey is a representative sample.
Some of the posts in this thread have been really funny (subjectivly ofcourse); but most have been moded out of existance :( Couldn't humor posts be labeled as such instead of Troll or Offtopic ? It would seem that those with no sense of humor could simply configure them away....
I've found that the female programmers I know are some of the most interesting, intelligent, well-spoken, and polite people I've ever met. And they give good interviews.
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Someone already mentioned Telsa Gwynne (although she isn't a programmer), but how about Val Hanson and Jenn Vesperman? I'm gonna talk this over with some friends and see who else we can come up with. Hopefully the interviews I've linked to can tide you over.:P Apparently Newsforge is doing a series on women in open source, although I don't think that should get any one else off the hook... Oh yeah, I'd just like to say that I don't think that the author(s) of the original interviews are sexist... I just think they could stand to work towards being more inclusive... In the end, that will inspire more women to get involved in what is ultimately an ALIENATING community. Which can only lead to positive input and the general growth of the community.--katie
Damn /. I can't even get to my GNU/Friends now.
Can't get the website. I see this is another quality GNU project that doesn't work correctly - rather like their software.
Free as in Freedom. Its Free speech, not Free Beer.
You gotta pay if you wanna play.
GNU/Friends: Hey, RMS, what the fuck is up? I'm glad I got the opportunity to perform this interview with you. [coughs]
RMS: Hello, GNU/Friends. I'm glad I got the opportunity to speak to another individual, interested in Free Software, that will eventually reach millions with the message I wish to express in this interview.
GNU/Friends: Yeah, whatever. Let's get this over with.. Firstly, let's talk about the origins of GNU. We all know it's Not UNIX. But where, exactly, did it come from? What was your prime inspiration for such a fine, grand, practical idea?
RMS: I'm glad you asked that.
GNU/Friends: I'm not.
RMS: Ah, [laughs] You have a unique sense of humor, comrade!
GNU/Friends: I know. And don't call me comrade. Or your friend, ally, brother, homey... I don't like you or your body odor. Now answer the question.
RMS: Ah [nervous laughter] yes... GNU. Well, after reading the works of Marx and Lenin, and having attended MIT and created several programs (GCC among them, of course) to which the source code was freely (as in speech, and beer) available, I began to see a certain communal effort begin to take shape among the software developers in the labs where I worked. However, the "administration" at MIT improperly thought that, since my works were created at MIT, they and their source belonged to MIT. This was in conflict with my embryonic philosphy--
GNU/Friends: Hey, could you just cut your ideological bullshit and get to the part where you were taking a dump and farted out the GNU / Free Software concept as we know it today?
RMS: Ah, I don't think I know what you're referring to, Mr. GNU/Friend. I certainly don't remember any toilet episodes being involved with the creation of GNU or Free Software...
GNU/Friends: Oh really? It's hard for me to imagine a toilet not having been involved in the creation of Free Software. No, I'm talking about how one day you were sitting in a stall at MIT's grand restroom facilities, peeped thru the glory hole bored in the stall wall to look for customers, and saw a man's ass tatooed with a bull or a yak or something.
RMS: WHAT!?
GNU/Friends: Okay, okay, okay-- Let's move on. How about your musical talents? From graphics posted at your homepage, it looks like you're fairly proficient on the flute. How did you obtain that talent?
RMS: That's rather simple: just a lot of practice and determination. The instruments you've seen me playing on my website are pan-pipes, actually, and not flutes. I began taking lessons from my father while him and I were still talking. I can play the flute, however, and--
GNU/Friends: Skin-flute.
RMS: Excuse me?
GNU/Friends: You heard me. Skin-flute. You play the skin-flute. That's why you're so good on those porn-pipes or whatever the Hell you called them. You are a skin-flute virtuoso and can play them like nobody's business. "Master skin-flutist RMS." Skin-flute.
RMS: Ah, I think this interview's getting a little off-track from its focus of Free Software and the GNU philosphy.
GNU/Friends: Of course it is. And why the fuck do you begin every sentence with "ah?" Anyway, I'll indulge you. New question. What's all this I hear about you dropping acid like there's no tomorrow?
RMS: Hey, look, I'm willing to spend my time discussing and even debating about the GNU concept and Free Software. I'm a very busy man--
GNU/Friends: No you're not.
RMS: I'm a very busy man and I simply cannot tolerate spending my valuable time digressing onto useless topics, much less helping you slander my good name--
GNU/Friends: Shut up.
RMS: I believe we're talking at cross-purposes here and I wish to terminate this interview now.
GNU/Friends: I believe your style is cross-dressing and I wish to inform you've been trolled. Do you know what a DGH is?
RMS: What? Excuse me? I said I wanted to stop this interview now!
GNU/Friends: A "DGH" is a Dirty GNU Hippy. You're a DGH. You're a pinko Commy too. Learn to bath, shave, and wipe your ass properly, and you'll make it in general society. But at least you aren't ESR so yo have something going for you already. Good day, Corporal Crapola of the GNU Commando!