Ask Richard Stallman Anything

Richard Stallman (RMS) founded the GNU Project in 1984, the Free Software Foundation in 1985, and remains one of the most important and outspoken advocates for software freedom. RMS now spends much of his time fighting excessive extension of copyright laws, digital rights management, and software patents. He's agreed to answer your questions about GNU/Linux, free software, and anything else you like, but please limit yourself to one question per post.

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Re:What was it you ate from your toe?

[bellers]

Hes committed to only eating open sores food.

Re:Is Microsoft the Great Satan? Betteridge says

[JustOK]

ask him.

did you realize...

[Anonymous Coward]

...you're asking this to the main author of GNU Emacs, that has been in development for more than 35 years and is right now in version 24, right?

Parrot?

[Polo]

Favorite type of parrot?

Beard

[ThatsNotPudding]

Are you married to the beard? It makes you easy to pigeon hole as a cross between Karl Marx and John Brown (read: an intolerant revolutionary).

No: appearance shouldn't affect the message. Yes: it, in fact, does.

Question About Anything: Growing a Beard?

[Iskender]

Hello,

People state, quite correctly, that you have worked a lot for freedom. But another thing you're famous for is the beard.

So basically, I look somewhat like a Roman emperor at the moment, and I'm wondering if you can give any tips on how to start looking a bit more respectable. Any general tips for the growth phase? How much work is it when done?

How many centimetres are required for the sudden and unexpected increase in programming ability?

Re:What was it you ate from your toe?

[leromarinvit]

I eat toe cheese too, just in the privacy of my own home.

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