Stallman Attacked by Ninjas

vivIsel writes "When RMS took the stage to address the Yale Political Union, Yale's venerable parliamentary debate society, it was already an unusual speech: instead of the jacket and tie customary there, he sported a T shirt, and no shoes. But then he was attacked by ninjas. Apparently some students took it into their head to duplicate an XKCD webcomic before a live audience — luckily, though, Stallman didn't resort to violence. Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM."

Comments

why can't he just die already?

[Anonymous Coward]

fucking useless twat, way to make everyone think hackers are unkempt, unprofessional hippies

tshirt and no shoes?

[timmarhy]

I've always wondered about the mans professionalism. now it's confirmed.

the only thing you'd buy from a guy like that is weed.

Re:tshirt and no shoes?

[Osty]

And gcc. And Emacs. And the GPL.

That's nice, and 20+ years old. What has he done lately to keep himself relevant? His personal web page is full of political propaganda and tripe (figures RMS would support the Green Party). It doesn't even have a section on software he's written, outside of the "Serious Bio" portion. His blog is nothing more than a listing of speaking engagements. And doesn't he have some sort of RSI that prevents him from actually typing (using speech commands instead)? As a developer, he's notoriously difficult to work with (why emacs has forked so much, for example). He's pretty much marginalized when it comes to code, and is nothing more than a figurehead for the FSF. A statue of a hippy would work just about as well.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:T-shirts are communist?

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, are t-shirts considered "dirty", "commie", or "hippie"? All of the above. Or is that not shaded enough between black and white for you?

At an international conference, I would not expect cultured people to stare at unfamiliar costumes. ... I wiggle my dick at your female leader conference attendees.

I can never figure out the singular fascination that people have for what fibers other people wrap around their bodies. It gives small minds something to gossip about, and provides endless simple fun in tweaking them. If it was singular, it wouldn't be all that fascinating, now would it?

Just to confirm that *you're* a script, my verification word is "minimize".

Re:this guy is a liability to the community

[Osty]

Dress codes anywhere but where the dressing is essential to the event is pointless. How is a uniform going to inspire creative thought? If what matters is what people have on their minds, why care about what they have on their bodies?

Nobody's saying he should put on a suit and tie or anything. Jeans and a t-shirt would be perfectly acceptable. However if he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do a couple things:

• Take a bath! A shower would suffice, but he probably needs hours of soaking to remove the years of neglected hygiene.
• Shave and a haircut. Or at least a trim of each. If he wants to wear a full beard and long hair, good for him. At least keep them neat.
• Use a brush or comb. Having long hair doesn't mean it has to be a rat's nest. Brush it out. This goes well with the first two (bathing will make the hair more manageable, as will trimming it).
• Put on some damn shoes. If you don't want to wear socks, that's your choice. Even flip-flops would be better than nothing. We're not hobbits, it's no longer the 15th century, and he can afford $5 for some Wal*Mart shoes.

Sounds like something straight out of an elementary school playground.

Would you say the same thing if he showed up to a presentation naked, or covered in feces? If you're incapable of managing your own persona hygiene, how in the hell are you going to manage something global? RMS can be as much of a hippy as he likes, but unless he cleans himself up at least a little bit nobody's going to take him seriously besides other hippies. There's a reason why RMS is a laughing stock, and it's partly due to his insistence on "Free Software" above anything else. For every one person who is actually interested in hearing RMS speak at a presentation like this, there are 50 who are there to laugh at the smelly, delusional hippy.

Re:Lazy vs. Wasteful

[Anonymous Coward]

and enabled him to waste his life trying to push his pathetic neo-communist bullshit on people who DO actually like the nice things in life, without dickheads like him helping people steal from them.
he needs to grow up

I don't see it.

[soccerisgod]

I really don't see why anyone would mention Stallman, Torvalds and whatshisface... Raymond in one sentence. Seriously, ESR is a nobody and a nutcase. Actually, if anyone actually deserved to be attacked by ninjas (AND pirates AND monkeys) it's him.

Re:In a perfect world...

[Teckla]

No, his purpose is to make it so all software has its source code available for modification. That's what he's here for. Think what you like of the guy, he's never veered from that purpose.

Neither has Osama bin Laden.

Forgive me if I continue to be skeptical of RMS's extremism...

Re:T-shirts are communist?

[Anonymous Coward]

Demonstrating stability can also be relationship-forming.

So is cock sucking.

bum

[delong]

Richard Stallman wants everything to be free because he's a shoeless, shirtless, tieless bum. What a neanderthal.

Re:bum

[delong]

Once again, your flaming fanboyism blinds you to the fact that what caught your eye was a flippant remark and the least important part of the sentence. Your reading comprehension skills are handicapped, at best.

Re:In a perfect world...

[synthespian]

You can't simply assume that once information is made available, it will always be available. If not maintained and copied and actively disseminated, information dies; it fades away, for a myriad of reasons.

I'll just call this the "GNU zealot paranoid outlook." How typical. The Church of Stallman creed.
The same argument could be made wrt GPLed software if you think about it, e.g., unless some replicates GPL code it dies too. For instance, AFAIK, I'm the only one to keep a public TISL (Tokohoku ISLisp) GPLed code around.
This isn't DNA, dude. This is computer code. Computer code is not free. Freedom is a category that belongs to people. You get that wrong every time.
Once the code is out there, it's out there. Nobody can take that away.