The RMS Tour Rider

larry bagina writes "It's no secret that rock stars have riders — provisions on their contractual appearances that require a bowl of brown-free M&Ms or specify the exact brand of bottled water, cocaine purity, etc. Well, Richard Stallman has his own quirky list of provisions." Some of the best stuff is at the end, including: "I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do [for] breakfast. Please just do not bring it up," and "One situation where I do not need help, let alone supervision, is in crossing streets. I grew up in the middle of the world's biggest city, full of cars, and I have crossed streets without assistance even in the chaotic traffic of Bangalore and Delhi. Please just leave me alone when I cross streets."

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Re:Strangely inspirational

[tomhudson]

First, IBM has has spent several BILLION funding open source, so RMS and the FSF "warning them of the dangers of proprietary software and offering to help" shows he's an idiot. It also says more about you that you would attack me for pointing out the obvious - that RMS is a manipulative liar.

He is a hypocrite, and his "logical consistancy" is the logical consistancy of con artists, liars, and other manipulators.

BTW - he has pretty much destroyed the ability to defend any copyrights assigned to the FSF with his public statements rwt violating copyright being ok providing anyone who infringes with a defense.