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Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea
fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team invited RMS to tea at Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and Open Source or Free Software. I told him some of us are using KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased him as an answer.' Many pearls in the article."
"Trying to improve relations, the GNU/french GNU/KDE team invited RMS to tea at GNU/Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He asked whether GNU/KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and GNU/Open Source or GNU/Free Software. I told him some of GNU/us are using KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased GNU/him as an GNU/answer.' GNU/Many GNU/pearls in the GNU/article."
I'm not Seth.
from the gnu/crumpets dept.
I didn't know crumpets were POSIX compatible...
This is strting to get out of hand. Pretty soon it'll be Gnu/Gnu.
And we all know where that leads - a recursive loop from which NO PERSON CAN ESCAPE FROM!
Gnu/Gnu/Gnu/Gnu/Gnu/Gnu - Noooo!
I am a filthy pirate.
I was hoping this article would have a couple pictures of Richard Stallman trying to strangle somebody on the KDE team while being held back by some of his FSF cohorts. I mean, they use kvim and they're developing KDE, which was previously "not free as in freedom".
*sigh* it was still very interesting, but a little disappointing to say the least.
Looks like Stallman has finally sold out. Give him a few more months and that hippie will be working for Mr. Gates.
do you just type it, or actually say "I use gnu linux"
Yeah, I could just imagine the conversations now. "New Linux? How is that different from the old Linux?" Or are we supposed to say guh-noo Linux?
French KDE group surrenders to German GNOME group. Film at 11.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
"'He asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux""
Personally, I don't say Gnu/Linux, or even KDE/Gnu/Linux.
When someone asks what I'm using, I tell them I'm using KDE/X-Windows 11/Gnu/Linux/System V/MIT/AT&T/AMD/K7/x86/Intel.
Got to give credit to everyone, RMS told me so, so it must be true!
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Les rapports entre Fellini et Rota ont été ceux de deux auteurs qui, par des moyens différents, ont réussi à exprimer des émotions et des états d'âme, des réalités et des fantaisies, avec une indépendance qui n'avait ni racines ni formations culturelles communes.
Leur collaboration eut pour origine une offre que Rota accepta un peu à contrecoeur. Mais cette première rencontre fut très positive. Nous comprîmes alors que nous travaillerions bien ensemble."Ce ne fut pas un choix" rappelle Fellini. "Ce fut vraiment une véritable convergence de deux tempéraments, de deux êtres qui devaient nécessairement, dans la limite de leurs résultats, cohabiter avec l'expression d'un film, rendu plus vital, plus évocateur par la musique".
I call it "RedHat".
-pyrrho
the British and U.S. KDE teams have freed the French group. reports say that the French team has started work on libmaginot to prevent this happening again.
how little things have changed for him in the last 10 years
The same thing can be said for Hurd!
But when speaking of higher level things like development, one can say, "I like GNU OSs more than Microsoft ones for writing perl." without a hitch.
That works fine until somebody says, "Huh? What the hell are you talking about? What new OS?" And your cube-mate interrupts and says, "Hey, listen, you really don't want to get into this with him." And then the first guy says, "Get into what? If there's a new OS, I wanna know about it." And then you start explaining that it's not "new" but "guh-noo," and your cube-mate rolls his eyes and says, "Christ, did you have to get him started?" and puts on his headphones and cranks his iPod up really, really loud. And then, just as the first guy is getting that glassy look in his eyes, right when you're getting to the part about how "guh-noo" has been around longer than Linux, somebody else walks by and overhears you in the midst of this little lecture. As she walks by, she can be overheard muttering, "Oh, poor bastard. Why didn't somebody warn him about that guy?"
Remember: the purpose of language is to communicate. The instant somebody starts telling you to use one word instead of another, you're no longer communicating. You're proselytizing.
Slashdot - where advice on removing the taste of semen from your mouth is "redundant."
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Two paragraphs and already three grammar/syntax mistakes. Are those French unable of speaking a foreign language?
(I is French)
The original GNU-system kernel was Alix (eponymous of one of RMS's past girlfriends).
Alix was chased away by the HURD (CM Mach) which was in turn vanquished our charming hero Linux . . . (meanwhile, Alix lies asleep, imprisoned in the dark tower as the HURD patiently plots its revenge).
--TRR
Slashdot... where eating your neighbor's shit is "redundant"
God damn, who is Joe Sixpack?
sgis ddo ekil t'nod i
update:
France attacks CNN building to free censored journalists.
France announces that it stringly regrets
assisting the creation of the Unites States of America and asks the world for forgiveness.
France decides to beat the shit out of the UK
"just like in the old napoleonic days"
France decides to continue to developping its culture, now that most western countries have either lost theirs (UK) or never had one (US).
Hibernia Player:
.
No! Not the Knights Who Say Gnu!
Casterhald:
The Same!
Hibernia Newbie:
Who are they?
Subedei:
We are the keepers of the sacred words: Gnu, Peng and Neewom.
Lorhald:
Neewom!
Wise Hibernia Player:
Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale.
Rathgar:
The Knights Who Say Gnu demand a sacrifice!
Hibernia Player:
Knights of Gnu, we are but simple travelers who seek the relic stored beyond these woods.
Lorhald:
Gnu! Gnu! Gnu! Gnu!
Guess who couldn't get a date on Saturday night . .
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
http://saveie6.com/
Now we're gonna have to call it Freedom Linux.
i went to the wise man and asked for advice.
"what kind of O/S to use, what's really nice?"
his beatific smile froze, eyes shrunk like a drunk mole,
whispered conspiringly: "emacs on console".
"what?!" i gasped, shocked, for how could it be
this self-styled geezer freak lecturing me?
my gigahertz beige steed sits awaiting the splendor;
i had no need for this aging freedom defender.
so i maxed out by fat pipe and installed all the ISOs,
task bar set one-click to grep google and lycos,
hardened and locked down and securely security-patched,
wallpapered and skin-toned and alpha blend cross-hatched.
and now to get cracking: i had much work to do.
had to write some rad shareware and slick manpages, too.
had to divine physics laws, apply methods numerical,
had to slather my ears w/ songs dull and hysterical.
in such a way i passed hours of enjoyment,
built up enough skills to muster gainful employment.
real world happiness, that's what i achieved,
pocketbook full, due to what i believed.
but lately i've wondered, is all this enough for me?
have i been blind, perhaps i'm too "tough" to see?
where is the respect i thought i'd have by now?
all these riches yet the hackers don't scrape and bow?
they call me a user and sometimes with "l" prefixed.
my opinions aren't sought, my postings are simply pre-nixed.
dammit what do i have to do to get street cred?
lawyer, who can i sue to save embarrassment beet red?
bellicose times these are, w/ the lawyers in charge.
and still the wise man floats not alone on his barge.
maybe i'll join him after all, lay down my wrong role.
maybe i can find happiness by using emacs on console.
A GNU/Rose is a GNU/Rose, by any other name... *smirk*
>>France decides to continue to developping its culture, now that most western countries have either lost theirs (UK) or never had one (US).
Moderators, do you mean Funny as in haha or Funny as in white jacket with the long sleeves and buckles on the back?
...And then you start explaining that it's not "new" but "guh-noo" ..."which is not to be confused with "gen-too" either, since it is also "guh-noo". And asking what "gun-noo" really is, is the same as telling "leenux" "Who's Your Daddy!" :)
Breakfast served all day!