Has anyone considered the possibility that RMS might just be an email bot with a web spider hooked up?
I mean, how hard could it be?
Grep the file for "Linux" and if there's X amount of "Linux"es in a certain context, fire off a slightly randomized rant about proper use of GNU/Linux.
Check for certain key words in any discussion FSF or open source, and then fire off a rant.
It couldn't be *that* hard.
Hell, I'm surprised there's no perl script out on the net which lets you auto-create an RMS response to any given statement.
If you release it under the GNU license (wait... he likes the GNU license, right?) he could even use it himself (assuming he exists at all) and save himself all *KINDS* of effort...
Hey, RMSBOT?
I am pro open source Linux, because it should be FREE as in beer, not free as in french revolution.
In a society without intellectual property, everyone is free to create whatever contracts or agreements to enforce the defense of their own material.
But, in a society without intellectual property, what's to stop a record company's talent seeker from going to my concert, taping my show, taking the tape back to whichever band he wants and showing them the song?
Their established, already popular group takes my song, and plays it as their own. I can claim I wrote the song, yell, scream, complain all I want.
Certainly I have been screwed. But have my rights been violated?
Intellectual property is flawed, and the concepts are outdated and often inappropriate, but can the total abolishment of IP be any better?
Think about it...
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Has anyone considered the possibility that RMS might just be an email bot with a web spider hooked up?
I mean, how hard could it be?
Grep the file for "Linux" and if there's X amount of "Linux"es in a certain context, fire off a slightly randomized rant about proper use of GNU/Linux.
Check for certain key words in any discussion FSF or open source, and then fire off a rant.
It couldn't be *that* hard.
Hell, I'm surprised there's no perl script out on the net which lets you auto-create an RMS response to any given statement.
If you release it under the GNU license (wait... he likes the GNU license, right?) he could even use it himself (assuming he exists at all) and save himself all *KINDS* of effort...
Hey, RMSBOT?
I am pro open source Linux, because it should be FREE as in beer, not free as in french revolution.
I like beer. I don't like guillotines.
pvh
In a society without intellectual property, everyone is free to create whatever contracts or agreements to enforce the defense of their own material. But, in a society without intellectual property, what's to stop a record company's talent seeker from going to my concert, taping my show, taking the tape back to whichever band he wants and showing them the song? Their established, already popular group takes my song, and plays it as their own. I can claim I wrote the song, yell, scream, complain all I want. Certainly I have been screwed. But have my rights been violated? Intellectual property is flawed, and the concepts are outdated and often inappropriate, but can the total abolishment of IP be any better? Think about it...