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Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference

Posted by samzenpus on from the outcome-uncertain dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Putting his money where his mouth is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like he is going to GNU/Hell

  2. Anyone else wonder who... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Richard Stallman Falls the 3rd is?

  3. Falls Ill by Twinbee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't it wonderful that a a capital I looks like a small L? It adds a little 'puzzle element' whilst reading therefore adding more spice to life.

    --
    Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
  4. On the scene by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stallman on the stretcher https://twitter.com/#!/Cribstopper/status/200641059389313024/photo/1/large

  5. GNUmonia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He probably has GNUmonia.

  6. Re:Putting his money where his mouth is by TapeCutter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We are all hypocrites in our own way, including you. I'm not a fan of Stallman's ideology and never have been, but a difference in opinion is no reason to kick a man when he's down.

    --
    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
  7. Re:Putting his money where his mouth is by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are 3 ways of doing it, all legitimate. You can subscribe and see the posts early. You can see the posts on firehose and guess which stories will make the front page. Or you can just be aware of the tech news stories of the day, and predict what will come up that way.

    Write your opinion.

    Then you need to wait for the story to come up. Possibly using a webpage change monitoring app with built in search. Or maybe just by lurking.

    Or course you'd only go to that effort if you're either very keen to get moderated up on slashdot and get lots of replies. Or if you really care about the topic really strongly.

    And Slashdot is full or both of those kinds of people. Although the specific topic they obsess about varies.

    Everyone here that posts has an agenda to put forward.

  8. Gosh, is the Slashdot audience really that creepy? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative
    Whether you agree with him or not, I think that everyone can acknowledge that RMS has devoted his entire life to something that has done many people very much good.

    So, (and this is not the first time) it never ceases to amaze me that the response of some contingent of the Slashdot audience is to dig through his blog and use the worst two comments you can find to smear dirt upon him. He's a libertarian, and yes, if you take Libertarainism to its logical extreme, you might indeed believe that anything that doesn't hurt someone else should be legal. Nobody is accusing him of performing these acts, only of believing that freedom really means all possible freedom.

    Like RMS, I'm getting old, and travel a lot to do talks. If I fall ill or get hit by a car, I hope you turkeys never find out.

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  9. Re:Let's have some perspective. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, let's show some goddamned decency. After all, RMS has never, in your parlance, cut off a hearse to piss on someone's grave:

    Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

    As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing.

    Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

    Nope, Stallman's a complete class act. He'd never do anything like that, he's too goddamned decent.

  10. Re:Sad that /. is nothing but trolls. by steelfood · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You must be really new here.

    This is par for the course. In fact, it's better than usual. Had this exact same story appeared a few years ago, there would've already been beard jokes, free as in beer jokes, GPL v3 jokes, and a whole conversation consisting of nothing but puns.

    --
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
  11. Re:Sad that /. is nothing but trolls. by Dave+Cole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having a low UID does not mean you have anything meaningful to say.

    A case in point.