Slashdot Mirror
RMS Replies to "The Stallman Factor"
Ryan Amos writes "RMS has replied to the article "The Stallman Factor," as
posted on Slashdot about a week ago. In specific, his replies deal with the University of Texas SIGLinux naming fiasco and Bitkeeper. As always with RMS, an interesting read."
I will pay 5 dollars for the honor
Then I went into the country of Comukha, which was disobedient and withheld the tribute and offerings due to Ashur my Lord: I conquered the whole country of Comukha. I plundered their movables, their wealth, and their valuables. Their cities I burnt with fire, I destroyed and ruined. The common people of Comukha, who fled before the face of my servants, crossed over to the city of Sherisha, which was on the further banks of the Tigris, and made this city into their stronghold. I assembled my chariots and warriors. I betook myself to carts of iron in order to overcome the rough mountains and their difficult marches. I made the wilderness (thus) practicable for the passage of my chariots and warriors. I crossed the Tigris and took the city of Sherisha their stronghold. Their fighting men, in the middle of the forests, like wild beasts, I smote. Their carcasses filled the Tigris, and the tops of the mountains. At this time the troops of the Akhe, who came to the deliverance and assistance of Comukha, together with the troops of Comukha, like chaff I scattered. The carcasses of their fighting men I piled up like heaps on the tops of the mountains. The bodies of their warriors, the roaring waters carried down to the Tigris. Kili Teru son of Kali Teru, son of Zarupin Zihusun, their King, in the course of their fighting fell into my power. His wives and his children, the delight of his heart I dispossessed him of. One hundred and eighty iron vessels and 5 trays of copper, together with the gods of the people in gold and silver, and their beds and furniture I brought away. Their movables and their wealth I plundered. This city and its palace I burnt with fire, I destroyed and ruined.
Stephen fucking King died yesterday fucking morning! I guess that fucking guy was a fucking prophet! Yet again Slashdot leads the fucking way! Fuck yeah!
War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Linux is GNU/Linux.
got it?
SIG:Slashdot: indymedia for nerds.
He may be a pain in the ass, but he is right.
Like I said, Stallman would have us believe that human life is expendable. That, of course, is nonsense, total nonsense. But Stallman is surrounded by irritating raucous pettifoggers who parrot the same nonsense, which is why his detractors are correct in their observation that the conflation of reckless psychics and saturnine self-deceiving purveyors of malice and hatred in his rejoinders is either dramatic hyperbole or a fatal methodological flaw. His prophecies are not the solution to our problem. They are the problem. Some day, I want to improve the living conditions of the most vulnerable in our society -- the sick, the old, the disabled, the unemployed, and our youth -- all of whose lives are made miserable by RMS.
But you don't have to wait for that. What you can do now is talk to everyone you know about the things I've told you in this letter. Use every medium available to you. Use the Internet. Use your telephone. Use radio and newspapers. And whatever you do, never be afraid to speak out against the evil that is RMS.
Nuff said
RMS is an OSShole. The black hole that sucks all OSS and declares $it GNU/$it.
--
If you moderate this, then your children will be next.
The Linux sources themselves have an even more serious problem with non-free software: they actually contain some. Quite a few device drivers contain series of numbers that represent firmware programs to be installed in the device. These programs are not free software. A few numbers to be deposited into device registers are one thing; a substantial program in binary is another. The presence of these binary-only programs in "source" files of Linux creates a secondary problem: it calls into question whether Linux binaries can legally be redistributed at all. The GPL requires "complete corresponding source code," and a sequence of integers is not the source code. By the same token, adding such a binary to the Linux sources violates the GPL.
So, you've been warned! Go remove all those illegal copies you have!!!
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5
How about the Karma-whore-bashing that will follow for posting a paint-by-numbers type of post that we always see on slashdot that always accumulates karma?
Whore.
Would that be acceptable?
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
I think he has a right to be annoyed. I think Joel Barr is out of line. He is, of course, entitled to say whatever brain dead crap comes into his head, but equally the rest of us are entitled to consider his output incompetent, unfair, tripe. He proved his worth when he laid into, and lied about, MPlayer, and the anti-Stallman rant has done nothing but confirm the view most of us formed after that debacle.
KMSMA (WWBD?)