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Introducing RMS-Lint
Shlomi Fish writes "There's a new tool called RMS-Lint
that aims to check and correct documents for their compliance with correspondence rules from Richard Stallman. If you plan on sending RMS an E-mail, you may actually need it."
GNU/is GNU/this GNU/another GNU/April GNU/Fool's GNU/joke?
Trolling is a art,
Now is this navel lint or dryer lint? Because you know it does make a difference!
Stop making fun of RMS.
He is a very intelligent and interesting person. But in addition to his horrific body odor, he has a real nasty habit of picking his nose in public and eating the booger, This is really disgusting to watch!
Slashdotted after two comments!
Let me see RMS-Lint and 04/01..... Ok... ummm... yes... I see what they are trying to accomplish here...
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
I tried it, but it seems to hang in an infinite loop when processing the word GNU.
It should have been GNU/RMS Lint. So we know it's a fake. Nice try sucker!
Lint is a waste of time, which makes Stallman's Lint a really really big waste of time. I mean, the guy is still endorsing Dennis Kucinich!
Just wait for SCO-IPLint... *shudder*
For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here
Some of the latest enteries:
livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
www.carniola.org - fake news story
eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox
Belive in Technology and AMAZE yourself. -- RIP ZDTV/TechTV
Wouldn't the opposite of this be more in line typical *lint programs or scripts? That way it would remove the unneeded extra GNU/ prefixes resulting in more efficient use of resources.
I don't subscribe to RMS's GNUtopian vision.
Hhhmmm... "Lint" introduced by a guy named "Fish". Something tells me that even though it's 04/01, I'm still staying as far away as possible. ;)
libertarianswag.com
Root-mean-square-limit what?
Richard-M-Stallman-limit made a little more sense, but still...
I was hoping this would be a new product at thinkgeek!
GNU/RMS-Belly-Button-Lint
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
How about doing something original, like weirdo moderation ("insightful" becomes "no shit", interesting becomes "word up", etc). or announce that slashdot will now be requiring all posters to subscribe in order to post comments, or "Kathleen Fent, please divorce rob and marry me!" posted by Hemos.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Since it is April Fools Day, why don't we have any SCO stories?
Slashdot sucks
boogers are tasty
what are the next stories going to be about "Netcraft confirms it, BSD is dying!" or "Stephen King dead at 54", come on people this is getting a little out of hand
but this confirms it...I myself just had my first taste and it was not too bad...I feel a little nauseous but I can feel the benefits tom my immune system already...now for that the stares of my co-workers that is problematic
if this is the person we are talkin about
does he work at a homeless shelter ? smoke weed ?
I would like to see lint options for average values as well as RMS.....not to mention Peak Music Power.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
So I'm just curious to see what would happen if I sent a flame mail to RMS using GNU/RMS-Lint. Could it possibly cause a spontaneous combustion reaction?
My sig hates me. That's ok, I never cared for it much anyway.
I feel this must be said -- we already have rules of correspondence. They are called grammar, spelling, and etiquette.
I find we have reached a bit of a level of absurdity when an individual has created their own rules by which they can be corresponded with.
I would hope that if you can assemble a correct sentence, put your thoughts in writing well, be polite, and spell things correctly, you could always expect a response from anyone via e-mail.
But how to please a crowd that do not empathize him?
http://www.arztverzeichnis.at/drbischingerfriedric h/
no wonder he has such a wacked out theory just check out that ugly face
HA HA. Site slashdotted! You can't click the link! April Fools.
http://www.sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/project /bennett.php
Not laughing so hard now, are we?
Where it started is for others to uncover. Personally, I shudder at the thought.
Forbes on Linux and RedHat
So rather than wasting your time on silly april fools' articles, how about you read that one that actually brings up serious issues that the OSS community needs to discuss and figure out how to deal with?
if you must, mod me down. i have the karma. but it is an interesting article and it isn't going to be discussed here any other way.
the site has just been slashdotted. It looks like slashdotters are somewhat playful today.
I send them to postmaster@gnu.org. He gets those by default anyways!!!
Only funs allowed.
Serious discussion strictly forbidden!
Hey, that's my password you are typing
"If you plan on sending RMS an E-mail, you may actually need it."
Nobody wants to send RMS and email. Well mabey to flame.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
You can get nasty scabs and infections from the germs on your fingers. This is the dangerous part about picking your nose--the non-airborne germs you shove in there while you're digging for gold. So wash your hands first.
mmm, chewy.
...is pulling a prank. (Be sure to try thoraxcorp's site too.)
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Amy
EOM
There were a bunch of whiney little bitches crying about it last year too. Some things never change.
Actually, there is a strangely similar package in Debian.
http://www.talknerdy.org
You're new here, aren't you?
Damn, dude, how long they been doing these stupid april fools jokes, and you still haven't gotten it?
next unless /check enclosed/i or /goats\.ex/i ;
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Darn - for a minute there I thought it read PMS limit . I'd sure like such a tool. Especially in...(counting)... 8 days.
you're right, though, oddly enough slashdot isn't nearly weird enough on april fool's. the stories can't be the whole picture.
sulli
RTFJ.
What have we learned today kids? If you are going to make some lame April Fool's Day joke on your website and submit it to Slashdot USE A FUCKING STATIC PAGE.
-Peter
All project descriptions are ROT-13 encoded.
I'm surprised this headline hasn't been April-foolized yet today here on /.
Not sure which story you're talking about? :)
If it's that we up here in canada can contiune to share files unsued, than thats true
you speak the GNU/Truth, GNU/Grasshopper!
has a funny article...
you always get an honest answer.
definitely a hero for our times, when we so desperately need some.
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
Last time I checked Kuro5hin, it was full of nothing but neo-con nutjobs and anti-everything trolls making one-line posts.
Reading K5 is like pulling teeth. There is no threshold setting so there is no real reason to moderate. (Other than the new feature of trying to "hide" a comment which takes so many mods to do I'm not even sure why they bother and then you get the fun of watching the flame wars start over it right there in the same thread.)
I still hit K5 every now and then to see what makes it to the front page but trying to read the threads becomes old real quick.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
I took a peek at the source code, and I have completely re-written it from scratch (without the use of emacs-lisp, imagine that!):
/bin/sh
#!
sed 's/\([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]*\)/GNU\/\1/g'
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
why do the people who dislike the April Fools /. bother to post? Jeez, do they think this is their personal site designed to cater to them?
I mean, go away.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Ugh, so then they become enshrined in our psyche as a cartoonish form of Ultimate Evil. Now we are going to have to start using:
SCOdwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a negative comparison involving SCO or Darl McBride approaches one.
-- JX
In the split second before I realized it was AFD, I thought "Holy carp! He's going to compete with us!"
:-)
/me waits to be modded into oblivion.
Then I thought, "Waitaminute...remember Emacs?" Then I relaxed...
You misunderstand it slightly. If you buy one copy and install it on a zillion machines, not only can you not expect zillion-machine level support, but you can't expect *any* support.
Their support contract says that if you want support on any one machine, you must buy support for all machines you have running RHEL. In order to get support for a machine, you must give them the right to inspect your facilities to make sure you have a support contract for all machines running RHEL. That is what everyone is in an uproar over.
Red Hat's reason for doing this is to prevent people from buying support for one machine, installing RHEL on 100 machines, then switching which machine is "supported" to the one machine having a problem every time there is a problem. This was a common practice where I worked (and I suspect in a lot of other places too) prior to their support contract change.
This policy is not technically a violation of the GPL, as the per-machine fee relates to support, not to software. If you forego the right to support, you can install on as many machines as you want. Of course, if you don't want Red Hat's support, you might as well go with another distro, such as White Box, Mandrake, or Debian.
The preceding comments reflect the author's personal opinion and are public domain, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
it's been GNU/.ed
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
Good joke! Almost plausable!
NOT A TROLL, just (a version of) the truth.
RMS in person is an antisocial hippie who could bathe more.
Everyone around him (at least at his office at MIT) can kinda track his steady decline into insanity.
And if this were real...
ha ha ha someone must actually run a program to format their e-mails to his liking?
good show!
Seriously. Just because the guy's into bestiality or whatever. I mean, he's the guy, right? With the ... you know... Syphillis... from gnus. On Howard Stern, getting plugs for his "GNU project" (I shudder to think what that is).
True story.
Finally, new government legislation makes it a federal felony, punishable by a minimum of 50 years in prison, to purchase, operate, sell, or traffic in any computer systems which do not utilize this technology, and which do not cause hourly payments of $1399 per Linux installation to SCO.
Oh yeah, and more legislation gives SCO higher-than-police authority to show up at your home or business for any reason or for no reason at all, break down the door without warning for any reason or for no reason at all, beat up any or all persons on the premises for any reason or for no reason at all, seize any persons or property they wish to seize for any reason or for no reason at all, and takes away any and all possible recourses that you might have had under the old evil capitalist system. Welcome to Soviet America. Darl McBride is your new president.
In my opinion, Darl's haircut is kind of ugly.
April's fool day on ./ featuring RMS ... when I saw it, I thought I'd share this cute (I'd say funny) piece of history, but again, no disrespect intended. Although being somewhat cynical is en vogue in nerd circles (unfortunately and boringly), when I say I respect RMS for what he is and for what he represents, I mean it.
Did they make the source available?
Xiaolong Wang
... brilliant.
"Chow Long Wang"
at least you filled in the missing piece....
1. Write software
2. give it away
3. ???
4. profit!
I was hoping that slashdot had outgrown the adolescent idea that every single story must be a lame April fools joke.
Those are really great ideas. This just shows that there are ways to run April fools jokes on the site without compromising the usefulness of the site for those of us who just want to come here for our usual Microsoft and SCO bashing.
Oh well, I can always follow the advice of the subject line to this message.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
No, I'm GNU Here,... err New Here.
Now if only my research paper due today was an april fools prank.
Man I'd love to be able to require a lint-type program to be run on emails sent to me. Besides the obvious implications for spam, I think I'd need pretty much one rule on mine:
NO FUCKING HTML!
Who's with me?
Here's the text of the article to relieve the stress from the site. Slashdot operators: please link to it from the feature.
Introducing the RMS-Lint
Introduction
A new tool aims to revolutionize the way people communicate with the famous free software evangelist Richard M. Stallman, (also known by his initials - "RMS"). Its project leader Shlomi Fish has more to say of it:
"RMS-Lint is called RMS-Lint because like most lints it warns on many things that are obviously not errors, because there's a chance that they are. RMS-Lint is an interactive speller that runs over the document word by word with a sophisticated look-ahead and look-behind and warns the user over any word or combination of words that may irritate Stallman, or otherwise will be frowned upon by him."
RMS-Lint's Rules
In accordance to the Free Software Foundation's list of words to avoid and other documents available on the FSF Site, the following rules are recognized by RMS-Lint:
Warns on every use of the term "Linux" not preceded by "GNU/". This is due to the fact that Stallman advocates using "GNU/Linux" instead of just "Linux" to refer to the entire operating system. It especially warns on "the Linux kernel" (because the kernel part is redundant as Linux is just the kernel).
Legitimate use of the term "Linux" to refer to just the kernel are also warned about, but can be overridden.
Warns on every use of the term "open source" and even the word "open". Replacements are "free software", "free", "revealed", "viewable", and the bootload of synonyms from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary". Also warns on the terms "closed-source" or "closed".
Warns on every use of the term "free" for fear it may be used to imply costlessness. As for legitimate uses of the term ("free as in free speech"), it should be noted that being a lint, RMS-Lint attempts to cover every possible error, not just the ones that actually are such. Replacements are "liberal", "libre", "costless", "gratis", and you also have an option to ignore it.
Warns on every use of the term "pirate" or "piracy". It is our belief that when talking to Dr. Stallman, people won't usually wish to talk about the sea-faring robbers, but instead on illegitimate copying of one form of media or another. Thus, RMS-Lint warns on every such use and suggests the alternatives of "illegal copier/copying", or "bucanneer".
Warns on every use of "Intellectual Proprety" or "IP" (a common short form of it). The developers of RMS-Lint realize that IP can also mean the "Internet Protocol" (as in "IP address", "my IP is '192.168.1.1'"), but we believe that when corresponding to RMS, such use will be relatively uncommon, and does not justify risking mentioning "intellectual property" to him.
Opinions on RMS-Lint
Eric S. Raymond, a long time friend of Stallman, and the chief leader of the open source movement, expressed a great deal of content from the availability of this tool. "I've been waiting for such a thing all my life. Communicating with Richard has become more and more difficult, and RMS-Lint can easily make it much better."
Raymond's long time collaborator Bruce Perens also expressed happiness that RMS-Lint has become available. "Modern-day open source enthusiasts find it more and more difficult to communicate with Richard Stallman due to his terminological whims. RMS-Lint is just the tool that can help them validate their E-mails for RMS' correctness."
Meanwhile, Richard Stallman himself expressed dismay from this project: "RMS-Lint is an unsatisfying symptomatic cure for a big problem.
We have two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. http://www.shlomifish.org/
RMS was born in Modesto, California and attended Berkeley University. This shouldn't surprise anyone, since Berkeley is the Liberal Hive of America and RMS is an admitted communist. RMS began his bizarre lifestyle while attending Berkeley, where he occupied the attic of a clock tower. This eccentricity continues today and RMS will not travel without a grandfather clock and a spitoon.
RMS' penchant for thievery was evident from the very beginning. His attic "apartment" was filled with equipment stolen from the Berkeley computer labs. This was quite an achievement in the early '70s, when any computer equipment was the size of a refrigerator.
RMS and his hacker friends cut class regularly, opting to spend their time and parent's money constructing illegal electronics devices designed to covertly access phone lines. The group of pirates would hack into the phone company, and charge enormous phone bills to unsuspecting Republican professors.
It was during this period that Stallman met Steve Jobs. RMS' technical savvy was far exceeded by that of Jobs and, never one to like being second-best, this caused him to pursue software hacking. RMS' hacking ability was innate and he and Jobs formed an alliance which would later result in the birth of Apple Computer.
Jobs' technical accumen was matched only by his ability to sell. He designed the internal electronics and outer package design of the first Apple, which was financed by Nolan Bushnell. He set RMS on to the task of developing the computer's "operating system" - a sequence of low-level MS-DOS commands which tell the computer how to decode program codes.
Though a gifted "coder", Stallman was quite lazy and didn't fare so well with the new operating system. His sloppy design and bloated codes were barely useable on the first microcomputer. Jobs dumped Stallman and hired John Wozniack to rewrite the internal operating system codes for the Apple I.
This situation didn't sit too well with RMS. Though he effectively dropped out of college, through non-attendance, he remained in the clock tower, unbeknownst to the faculty and administration of Berekely. His bizarre reclusiveness and tendency to "hack" only in the night kept him invisible to everyone, though rumors did circulate around campus about the "haunted clock-tower" and the deformed ghost that would occasionally appear, transluscent white, on top of the tower playing a magical flute.
Stallman grew sullen and withdrew into his own world in the clock tower. He watched as the joint Apple/Microsoft empire grew to become the computer industry and he vowed to topple it by undermining the livelyhood of his arch-rival Steve Jobs (and, by extension, Bill Gates) with his illegal offerings.
Stallman conspired with Linux Torvaledse, another Berkeley student, to create a hacker operating system which could be used to leverage the internet and wreak havoc on corporations everywhere. RMS even went so far as to use Microsoft's innovative GUI (Graphical User Implementation) which he had stolen from Microsoft's mainframe computer and given the hacker alias "X-Windows". Unfortunately, RMS was not able to acquire the latest Microsoft GUI codes and was thus forced to settle for an inferior version.
RMS' continued interest in communism provided him some insight as to how to spread his hacker tool across the internet. By stressing the free nature of the software, he would appeal to the welfare nature of the public.
This marketing scheme worked spectacularly. RMS' hacker tool is now installed on countless computers, hidden away in the dark bedrooms of LSD-using hacker teens.
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...are here http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RichardStall man