Trollaxor: Hey, RMS, what the fuck is up? I'm glad I got the opportunity to perform this interview with you. [coughs]
RMS: Hello, Mr. Trollaxor. I'm glad I got the opportunity to speak to another individual, interested in Free Software, that will eventually reach millions with the message I wish to express in this interview.
Trollaxor: Yeah, whatever. Let's get this over with. Firstly, let's talk about the origins of GNU. We all know it's Not UNIX. But where, exactly, did it come from? What was your prime inspiration for such a fine, grand, practical idea?
RMS: I'm glad you asked that.
Trollaxor: I'm not.
RMS: Ah [laughs]. You have a unique sense of humor, comrade Trollaxor!
Trollaxor: I know. And don't call me comrade. Or your friend, ally, brother, homey... I don't even like you. Now answer the question.
RMS: Ah, [laughs] yes. GNU. Well, after reading the works of Marx and Lenin, and having attended MIT and created several programs (GCC among them, of course) to which the source code was freely (as in speech, and beer) available, I began to see a certain communal effort begin to take shape among the software developers in the labs where I worked. However, the administration at MIT improperly thought that, since my works were created at MIT, they, and their source, belonged to MIT. This was in conflict with my embryonic philosphy--
Trollaxor: Hey, could you just cut your ideological bullshit and get to the part where you were taking a dump and farted out the GNU/Free Software concept as we know it today?
RMS: Ah, I don't think I know what you're referring to, Mr. Trollaxor. And I certainly don't remember any toilet episodes being involved with the creation of GNU or Free Software.
Trollaxor: Oh really? It's hard for me to imagine a toilet not having been involved in the creation of Free Software. No, I'm talking about how one day you were sitting in a stall at MIT's grand restroom facilities, peeped thru the glory hole bored in the stall wall to look for customers, and saw a man's ass tatooed with a bull or yak or something?
RMS: WHAT!?
Trollaxor: Okay, okay, okay. Let's move on. How about your musical talents? From graphics posted at your homepage, it looks like you're fairly proficient on the flute. How's you obtain that talent?
RMS: That's rather simple: just a lot of practice and determination. The instruments you've seen me playing on my website are plan-pipes, actually, and not flutes. I began taking lessons from my father while him and I were still talking. I can play the flute, however, and--
Trollaxor: Skin-flute.
RMS: Excuse me?
Trollaxor: You heard me. Skin-flute. You play the skin-flute. That's why you're so good on those porn-pipes or whatever the Hell you called them. You are a skin-flute virtuoso and can play them like nobody's business. "Master skin-flutist RMS." Skin-flute.
RMS: Ah, I think this interview's getting a little off-track from its focus of Free Software and the GNU philosphy.
Trollaxor: Of course it is. And why the fuck do you begin every sentence with "ah?" Anyway, I'll indulge you. New question. What's all this I hear about you dropping acid like there's not tomorrow?
RMS: Hey, look, I'm willing to spend my time discussing and even debating about the GNU concept and Free Software. I'm a very busy man--
Trollaxor: No you're not.
RMS: I'm a very busy man and I simply cannot tolerate spending my valuable time digressing onto useless topics, much less helping you slander my good name--
Trollaxor: Shut up.
RMS: I believe we're talking at cross-purposes here and I wish to terminate this interview now.
Trollaxor: I believe your style is cross-dressing and I wish to inform you've been trolled. Do you know what a DGH is?
RMS: What? Excuse me? I said I wanted to stop this interview now!
Trollaxor: A DGH is a Dirty GNU Hippie. You're a DGH. You're a pinko Commy too. Learn to bath, shave, and wipe your ass properly, and we in the Ministry of Love will welcome you with open arms. Good day, Corporal Crapola of the GNU Commando!
So, Amnesty International (yes, the same organization that has fought both left and right wing military dictatorships) is lying?
What the fuck is wrong with you people? You don't understand what a disgrace our nation has become? Illegal wars, torture and soon pre-emptive nuclear attacks against a nation that has not attacked us. Fuck you.
Cheney: Okay, motherfuckers. This plame shit has totally fucked all our asses royally. What are you cocksuckers going to do about it?
Scooter: We could let Osama out of his cage, finally say we caught him.
Cheney: Abso-fuckin'-lutely not, asshole. That shit is for 2008.
Karl: Okay, how 'bout we blow stuff up? Hehehehe! Blow stuff up real good!
Rummy: That is the BEST idea I've heard all day.
Cheney: Now we're cooking with fucking gas! All right, we gotta make this big, so I say we take out... fuck... I dunno... Peoria. Whole motherfucking town! Like we use a nuke this time, blame it on some raghead fuckers again.
Condi: I'll go get the plutoooniuuuum!
Cheney: Someone go upstairs and tell that cum-belcher, "bright eyes." He's been wanting to push the fucking button ever since we fixed the fucking election. Every god damn day, I have to hear that shit from him, "I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh!" You know, that fucking snicker of his, sometimes I could just... OUCH! Third fuckin' coronary this morning.
Upstairs in the white house later...
Condi: Darlin- uh, I mean, Mr. President, guess what we get to do tooodaaaay?
Chimp: Clear brush and then ride muh bike?!
Condi: EVEN BETTER! LOOK!
She opens the TOP SECRET panel that reveals THE BUTTON!
Chimp: HOOOOO DOGGIES! THE BUTTON! You know, I always tell Dick, I always tell him, I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh! He pushes the button. Fade to white.
Why would it be easier to believe that life began elsewhere than to assume that life started here on Earth? Is there some particular reason not to believe that the life on Earth got started on Earth?
When asked about GPL the guy sounds like he thinks it's something unpleasant that we have to live for the time being! Jesus. And I had always had lots of respect for Hans.:-(
Yep. And for that low, low price you will also get DRM that prevents you from copying your music to your friend's computer as is your right.
Furthermore, it will not support free codecs such as OGG and will lock you into proprietary, closed and/or patent encumbered products such as AAC, MP3 and WAV.
Great news, but in my opinion it is way too early to start celebrating.
The licensing scheme will, of course, be of an utmost importance to the community of developers and the "article" doesn't say anything about it. Let's hope it will be a truly free license, preferably GPL, so that the source can actually be modified and re-distributed.
How on Earth is it possible that SUSE Pro has NOT been open source so far? It's based on GPLd software and therefore all changes to the code and 3rd party additions should be free too.
Am I sensing a license infringement cover up somewhere in here...
Dear god, people. If you're getting your daily dose of world politics from these "news" agencies, it's time for you to wake the hell up.
Pre-digested, right-wing biased and US-centric reporting. So what's new? Now you can get videos on CNN, too? Oh, rapture. How about you switch off your TV and start getting your news from independent, completely non-affiliated sources?
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Trollaxor: Hey, RMS, what the fuck is up? I'm glad I got the opportunity to perform this interview with you. [coughs]
RMS: Hello, Mr. Trollaxor. I'm glad I got the opportunity to speak to another individual, interested in Free Software, that will eventually reach millions with the message I wish to express in this interview.
Trollaxor: Yeah, whatever. Let's get this over with. Firstly, let's talk about the origins of GNU. We all know it's Not UNIX. But where, exactly, did it come from? What was your prime inspiration for such a fine, grand, practical idea?
RMS: I'm glad you asked that.
Trollaxor: I'm not.
RMS: Ah [laughs]. You have a unique sense of humor, comrade Trollaxor!
Trollaxor: I know. And don't call me comrade. Or your friend, ally, brother, homey... I don't even like you. Now answer the question.
RMS: Ah, [laughs] yes. GNU. Well, after reading the works of Marx and Lenin, and having attended MIT and created several programs (GCC among them, of course) to which the source code was freely (as in speech, and beer) available, I began to see a certain communal effort begin to take shape among the software developers in the labs where I worked. However, the administration at MIT improperly thought that, since my works were created at MIT, they, and their source, belonged to MIT. This was in conflict with my embryonic philosphy--
Trollaxor: Hey, could you just cut your ideological bullshit and get to the part where you were taking a dump and farted out the GNU/Free Software concept as we know it today?
RMS: Ah, I don't think I know what you're referring to, Mr. Trollaxor. And I certainly don't remember any toilet episodes being involved with the creation of GNU or Free Software.
Trollaxor: Oh really? It's hard for me to imagine a toilet not having been involved in the creation of Free Software. No, I'm talking about how one day you were sitting in a stall at MIT's grand restroom facilities, peeped thru the glory hole bored in the stall wall to look for customers, and saw a man's ass tatooed with a bull or yak or something?
RMS: WHAT!?
Trollaxor: Okay, okay, okay. Let's move on. How about your musical talents? From graphics posted at your homepage, it looks like you're fairly proficient on the flute. How's you obtain that talent?
RMS: That's rather simple: just a lot of practice and determination. The instruments you've seen me playing on my website are plan-pipes, actually, and not flutes. I began taking lessons from my father while him and I were still talking. I can play the flute, however, and--
Trollaxor: Skin-flute.
RMS: Excuse me?
Trollaxor: You heard me. Skin-flute. You play the skin-flute. That's why you're so good on those porn-pipes or whatever the Hell you called them. You are a skin-flute virtuoso and can play them like nobody's business. "Master skin-flutist RMS." Skin-flute.
RMS: Ah, I think this interview's getting a little off-track from its focus of Free Software and the GNU philosphy.
Trollaxor: Of course it is. And why the fuck do you begin every sentence with "ah?" Anyway, I'll indulge you. New question. What's all this I hear about you dropping acid like there's not tomorrow?
RMS: Hey, look, I'm willing to spend my time discussing and even debating about the GNU concept and Free Software. I'm a very busy man--
Trollaxor: No you're not.
RMS: I'm a very busy man and I simply cannot tolerate spending my valuable time digressing onto useless topics, much less helping you slander my good name--
Trollaxor: Shut up.
RMS: I believe we're talking at cross-purposes here and I wish to terminate this interview now.
Trollaxor: I believe your style is cross-dressing and I wish to inform you've been trolled. Do you know what a DGH is?
RMS: What? Excuse me? I said I wanted to stop this interview now!
Trollaxor: A DGH is a Dirty GNU Hippie. You're a DGH. You're a pinko Commy too. Learn to bath, shave, and wipe your ass properly, and we in the Ministry of Love will welcome you with open arms. Good day, Corporal Crapola of the GNU Commando!
What the fuck is wrong with you people? You don't understand what a disgrace our nation has become? Illegal wars, torture and soon pre-emptive nuclear attacks against a nation that has not attacked us. Fuck you.
Should have believed Stallman...
IMPEACH BUSH!
...IMPEACH BUSH!
IMPEACH BUSH!
IMPEACH!
If you compile a kernel consisting mostly of modules, you don't have to reset the damn thing.
Meanwhile, in Dick's Secret Bunker...
Cheney: Okay, motherfuckers. This plame shit has totally fucked all our asses royally. What are you cocksuckers going to do about it?
Scooter: We could let Osama out of his cage, finally say we caught him.
Cheney: Abso-fuckin'-lutely not, asshole. That shit is for 2008.
Karl: Okay, how 'bout we blow stuff up? Hehehehe! Blow stuff up real good!
Rummy: That is the BEST idea I've heard all day.
Cheney: Now we're cooking with fucking gas! All right, we gotta make this big, so I say we take out... fuck... I dunno... Peoria. Whole motherfucking town! Like we use a nuke this time, blame it on some raghead fuckers again.
Condi: I'll go get the plutoooniuuuum!
Cheney: Someone go upstairs and tell that cum-belcher, "bright eyes." He's been wanting to push the fucking button ever since we fixed the fucking election. Every god damn day, I have to hear that shit from him, "I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh!" You know, that fucking snicker of his, sometimes I could just... OUCH! Third fuckin' coronary this morning.
Upstairs in the white house later...
Condi: Darlin- uh, I mean, Mr. President, guess what we get to do tooodaaaay?
Chimp: Clear brush and then ride muh bike?!
Condi: EVEN BETTER! LOOK!
She opens the TOP SECRET panel that reveals THE BUTTON!
Chimp: HOOOOO DOGGIES! THE BUTTON! You know, I always tell
Dick, I always tell him, I'm the president, Dick! I should get to push the button! Lemme push the button! Heh heh!
He pushes the button. Fade to white.
Why would it be easier to believe that life began elsewhere than to assume that life started here on Earth? Is there some particular reason not to believe that the life on Earth got started on Earth?
When asked about GPL the guy sounds like he thinks it's something unpleasant that we have to live for the time being! Jesus. And I had always had lots of respect for Hans. :-(
If they really supported open source, they'd go for the only truly free license, GPL.
Furthermore, it will not support free codecs such as OGG and will lock you into proprietary, closed and/or patent encumbered products such as AAC, MP3 and WAV.
What a bargain!
Guns are ok, of course, because they're a God given right.
I've never understood how anyone can hate Freedom that much...
The licensing scheme will, of course, be of an utmost importance to the community of developers and the "article" doesn't say anything about it. Let's hope it will be a truly free license, preferably GPL, so that the source can actually be modified and re-distributed.
I've said it before and I'm saying it again. The only good software producer is the one that signs to the GPL and Free Software revolution.
Am I sensing a license infringement cover up somewhere in here...
It only encourages people to keep on using proprietary and closed Windows software instead of extolling the virtues of free software.
BSD is a halfway solution that still encourages not sharing the code.
Intel's one of the most abusive corporations in the human history. It's about time they got their asses kicked.
Yeah, right. Who in his right mind would ever route his phonecalls over a Micro$oft "secured" servers and protocols?
On the other hand, who cares? It will be running Linux in no time.
Pre-digested, right-wing biased and US-centric reporting. So what's new? Now you can get videos on CNN, too? Oh, rapture. How about you switch off your TV and start getting your news from independent, completely non-affiliated sources?
Space elevators and solar sails are just too... I don't know. Tame.