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BBC interview with RMS
An anonymous reader submitted an interview with RMS running over at the BBC. Doesn't really say much of anything
that you haven't heard before but it's a nice little interview, and its
not like much else is happening today :)
"Yeah, we posted this cause it was a damn slow news day" Totally makes my day seem a bit less boring.
What, me worry?
BBC: Is it true you get what you pay for?
RMS: Well, in my case... yes.
Does that make you a son of a bitch? ;-)
Stallman interview
By uptight British network
Meant to excite me?
I have an uncle who looks outright like Richard, minus 100lbs or so...Is this 'Free Software' idealism a genetic thing or what?
On another note, we should have an RMS-shirt watch...There's that maroon one again!
"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested." (LT 2004)
One day a friend of mine told RMS in a chatroom interview "RMS! You're my hero!" to which RMS replied: "Bite me, Fanboy." Priceless.
Hmmmm, commerce through ignorance? That must be Rad Hat's plan. Sell shiny boxes for $70, don't let on that you can get it for free if you ask. (The gurus know anyway).
Two words:
"Bottled Water".
'nuff said.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
Does anyone have the sneaking suspicion that Richard Stallman is Karl Marx reincarnated? I think Marx would have had the same views about free software that Richard Stallman does. And did you see the picture? Give him a few years and some gray hair and he'll be a dead ringer for Marx. I mean, has anyone ever seen them together? Eerie.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
BBC: Hey, RMS, what the fuck is up? I'm glad I got the opportunity to perform this interview with you. [coughs]
RMS: Hello, Mr. BBC. 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.
BBC: 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.
BBC: I'm not.
RMS: Ah, [laughs] You have a unique sense of humor, comrade !
BBC: 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--
BBC: 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. BBC. I certainly don't remember any toilet episodes being involved with the creation of GNU or Free Software...
BBC: 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!?
BBC: 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--
BBC: Skin-flute.
RMS: Excuse me?
BBC: 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.
BBC: 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--
BBC: 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--
BBC: Shut up.
RMS: I believe we're talking at cross-purposes here and I wish to terminate this interview now.
BBC: 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!
BBC: 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