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The Stallman Factor
An anonymous reader sent us linkage to a LinuxWorld story about Stallman's Position
in the Linux World. Talks a lot about RMS's tacticts for getting his
acronym included with the kernel's name. This has been a long-running debate,
but personally I just don't care. I respect the GNU Project's involvement. But
I'm not gonna spit out extra syllables and keystrokes just to appease anyone.
I respect this artist's skill, but I'm not gonna pay for a painting because I can just download this jpeg.
/! He doesn't want to molest your daughter, rape your wife, or take away your rights, he just wants recognition for a freaking foundation that just happens to have these high fucking ideals, ideals which you hold dearly! WTF?
I respect this musician's lyrical ability, but I'm not gonna buy their album because I can download their MP3z.
I respect these actors, actresses, and the director who made them do their thing, but I'm not gonna pay for a movie ticket because I'm sticking it to the man with DivX.
Stallman isn't asking you to pay jack shit, he's asking for a freaking single syllable! 4 bytes! G N U
[o]_O
He just needs to give it up (but he never will). No one but him likes the assinine name, and it isn't neccessary to mangle a perfectly good name just to suit an agenda.
Maybe that's what bugs me... it seems so arbitrary to push this position. It just never seemed like anything worthy of his time, and it makes him look even more like a raving loonie than he really is (but hey, it takes raving loonies to change the world sometimes).
It's a strange world -- let's keep it that way
You`d think a country thats packed full of fucking pigs who cant stop shoving chips and cakes and large hunks of fried meat into their mouths would have a little more practice at looking beyond appearances and pay attention to what someone is saying.
Without RMS there would be no slashdot.org, no linux, and we'd be stuck with the shitty non-GNU versions of utilities that proprietary unix vendors ship.
Don't assume I am a Microsoft hater because I read Slashdot.
The reason I made the comment was that I have witnessed the worst hygene at the Computer Science Club at my school. You would walk by that room and fall over due to the stench. When Stallman came to my school he looked almost exactly like some of the people who produced those foul oders. Now, I don't really care about weight or looks or anything. But hygene is one thing that everyone can maintain without help from of a 12 step program or a doctor.
ESR is just some sort of leeching gasbag.
``Just''some sort of leaching gas bag? Are you crazy? He's the leaching gasbag that took credit when VD Linux had the most ``successful'' IPO ever, but has been noticably silent when VA Squeegee and Panhandling became the final nail in the ``Open Source Business Model'' coffin.
BOOO Very tastless.
donfedePersonally, I run Blender/Apache/Samba/gftp/Ktelnet/Koffice/Kompany/ KDE/Perl/PHP/Licq/Mandrake/GNU/Linux! How about you?
Yunno ... I don't see Ken Thompson going around and demanding fealty from everyone for having written Unix. Welcome to the world of technology -- scratch that, welcome to the real world, where people have natural tendencies to push away people who demand gratitude. My mother doesn't claim credit for all my accomplishments, and she did a whole lot more than just provide half the chromosones...
GCC was not the first freely available compiler, nor is it the only one out there. Compiler hackers could have just as easily worked on lcc and shut RMS up for good.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
just shows what an ungrateful sack of shit leech you are.. if it weren't for RMS Linux would not exist as we know it today.