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French PM Unreceptive To RMS
An anonymous reader writes "Six month after the publication of very bad amendments to French DRM law proposal, Richard Stallman has been pushed back by the chief of security team of French Prime minister.
On Friday 9th of June 2006 at 3.30pm, Richard Stallman, president of Free Software Foundation, led a delegation composed by Frédéric Couchet (Free Software Foundation France) and Christophe Espern (EUCD.INFO initiative) to meet the French Prime minister in order to talk about the French DRM law proposal and to deliver the EUCD.INFO petition signed by more than 165,000 French residents. Richard Stallman and his friends were pushed back by the chief of security team. "
8am - Wakes up outside the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge as another bum shits on him. Thinks this sucks and that he would like an apartment, but can't find a landlord with an apartment that is free as in speech and beer. Falls back asleep.
9am - Wakes up again.
9:15am - Goes to men's room at MIT to wash shit off. Gives himself sponge bath. Shit comes off (somewhat), but he really isn't clean since he refuses to take a shower.
9:45am - Decides to shave 2 inches off beard after someone in MIT restroom mistakes him for Osama Bin Laden.
10am - Goes to McDonalds for breakfast. Gets into arguement with workers behind counter after they refuse to give him a free as in speech and beer breakfast. Also gets into arguement with the manager about why McDonalds should be called GNU/McDonalds due to the fact that he eats there.
11:30am - After being thrown out of McDonalds since the staff doesn't want a DGH deterring lunch rush, RMS goes to the McDonalds' dumpster to find food. Eats a "GNU/Quarter Pounder" and "GNU/fries" covered with "GNU/mold". He consideres the food better since it is free as in speech and beer.
12:30am - Goes back to MIT to recruit MIT students into writing free software. RMS is unable to enter anyone's office since everyone has placed spider plants in their offices. (He has a phobia a spider plants.)
1pm - RMS protests GWB (George W. Bush) for not being GNU/GWB and believing in copyrights. Wanders out of Cambridge and into Waltham. Police find RMS and arrest him for violating the ordinance that says he is not allowed to enter Waltham. (All towns surrounding Cambridge have this ordinace.) Police beat him and deport him back to Cambridge.
3pm - Goes back to MIT and creates a plan for dealing with overpopulation by killing everyone who uses non-free software. Writes code into next version of emacs to implement that feature
5pm - Tries to read email. RMS finds out he is dangerously over quota due to an email from Doctress Neutopia. This email is 65 megabytes of nothing but ASCII text. It is similar to an email he gets everyday since 1995 when he and Docress Neutopia had a brief fling. The email says that she would like to have a relationship with him, but he needs to accept her lovoution, stop his polygamous goat fucking and clean off the hair, dirt, food, and feces off his keyboard. RMS responds with a 9 megabyte email (of nothing but text) explaining that he could only consider getting into a relationship with her if she changed her name to GNU/Doctress Neutopia.
5:30pm - Reads rest of his email. His email is bombarded with trolls and goatse. RMS is turned on by the goatse and beats off to it.
6pm - Still beating off to goatse
7pm - Still beating off to goatse
8pm - Still beating off to goatse
9pm - Breaks into MIT vending machine to have a free as in speech and beer snack.
10pm - Breaks into a liquor store for free as in speech and free as in beer beer. Gets drunk.
10:15pm - Walks around drunk yelling, "Use free software!!!!", "It's GNU/Linux you capitalist pigs!!!!" and "I am a goat fucker!!!!".
11:45pm - Collapses in front of the Center for Marxist Education. Goes to sleep.
This stunt was bound to fail on a diplomatic level, and probably succeeded in it it's real purpose: RMS self-agrandizement.
France is a culture of peasants. The government is Paternalistic to the extreme. The citizenry accepts that the government will regulate their lives, and attempts at direct independence are futile. This is why France is the laughingstock of Europe, and that is why the French are so grouchy. Pity them and ignore them. Economics will make believers out of them in time.
Mike
"The mind works quicker than you think!"
Said by a guy from the home of the free. As free as he tells you how to act.
I think they should try again. Surely just an oversight.
Actually, I believe the next step is to go through town setting cars on fire .
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Actually, RMS wasn't pushed back because of politics. What the PM said during the encounter may shed some light on the problem:
RMS comes close.
PM: "Ooh la la, it's Pepé Le Pew! Allez-vous!"
Correction. The French are no stranger to losing wars. The French main contribution to wars are complaining a lot and running away/surrendering.
Sorry my bullshit sensor overloaded.
He's a socialist worm like everyone else in France (surrender land)
Simply put, the French know far more about war than America. Take World War I, for example. France sustained over 1400000 dead citizens (both military and civilian). The US, on the other hand, suffered a mere 126000 or so. France suffered over ten times as many dead, for those of you who aren't good at math.
For those of you who aren't good at strategy, the more you know about war, the less men you lose.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Please be better informed in your insults to the free software community and the ideals of your own country. RMS, for all his lack of vanity, does not stink. The same can not be said of the PM or his normal guests.
You do know that Mr. Gates is famous for both his informal attire and his bad hygiene, don't you? See here:
The photo also unintentionally captures classic Gates: completely wrecked hair, terrible looking clothes, generally slovenly appearance, and two glazed eyes staring out past thick glasses. This image changed very little over the bulk of Gates' career, with the shower taps running at much less frequency than the money taps. It should also be noted that this isn't some heaping of sour grapes from the gutter staring up at Bill's mountain of success; throughout the time he has been known in public, Bill's dedication to all-nighters and in-the-trenches energy ensured a number of high-profile press conferences and demonstrations where his lack of hygiene became as breathtaking as the product being demonstrated.
Mr. Gates was welcomed as a head of state on his visit.
Embarrassing indeed but some things smell worse than body odor. When money trumps morals and law, it's not good to be on either side. While there is great shame for the PM in selling out his fellow countrymen, there is also great shame in trying to buy him. There's plenty of stink to go around on this one and clothes are small stuff in the big picture.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
So, what's your fucking point?