Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference

itwbennett writes "Stallman, 59, was speaking at the North Campus of the Polytechnic University of Cataluna when he started to feel ill and called for a doctor. It was originally reported in the Spanish press that Stallman was hypertensive, but it is not yet known what his eventual health status was, just that he left the building later under his own power." He is apparently okay and any significant confirmed updates will be posted here.

Comments

Re:Putting his money where his mouth is

[cheesybagel]

It is actually a good idea to visit webpages that way. If he wants to refer to the source material later he can. Webpages and websites are so dynamic often content is lost, while e-mail can be stored basically indefinitely. If Ballmer was treated with a machine using Linux would he be a hypocrite since he calls the GPL a virus?

Re:Putting his money where his mouth is

[mickwd]

Notice that the post you are replying to (several paragraphs long and containing a number of links) was posted the very same minute as the story.

Not the first time such a thing has happened to today with posts that seem to be putting forward a particular agenda.

Re:Putting his money where his mouth is

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

This. I disagree with this end game, and most of his ideology. I'm posting this on an iPad for god's sake.

Yet. I hope he gets better. I hope he can make me see the light or vice a versa. I hope we can continue having this debate. I think some never ending debates bring us down, this one, however, brings us up.

He's a quirky and socially maladjusted but sweet man.

Come on RMS! Pull through!

Re:Let's have some perspective.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I just don't care more about random strangers just because they had their life facilitated by being able to do academic work and public talks. You have people dying in Syria right now trying to defend values much more honorable than anything RMS ever stood for, do you give a shit about them? Because it is easy to talk about freedom (wtf!) and badmouth "evil corporations" when you and the ones that are close to you are protected from harm.

Uh-huh...

"Right X is more important than right Y. Therefore, right Y isn't important!" Great logic.

Re:Putting his money where his mouth is

[drinkypoo]

Yes, I use Linux on my computers because I don't see any reason to pay for an OS, pay for applications and then pay a different company for more applications to keep my computer free of malware, especially when I can get an equally good OS and applications for free. But unlike some people, I'm not a fanatic about it.

What you clearly don't get is that much of the reason you can get a good OS and applications for free is the GPL, for which you can thank RMS. I remember what it was like to install *BSD before the various BSDs were shamed into modernity by Linux. No thanks, you can have that.