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What is your favourite thing about RMS
The beard
The hair
The hair and beard
Free software
that which you refer to as linux is actually GNU/Linux
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The Leck
Feb 27, 2001

Tarlach posted:

Heavy metal" sounds too harsh to me; anyway, the name is deceptive: the metal in a bronze gamelan is far heavier.
this stuck out at me from this whole manifesto - i can't even tell if it's a joke or not.

i know i've read this before, but it had me in tears from laughing.

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

The Leck posted:

this stuck out at me from this whole manifesto - i can't even tell if it's a joke or not.
i know i've read this before, but it had me in tears from laughing.

:wtf:

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple on pizzadog derangement syndrome

bobbilljim posted:

put some quotes around that one in case they try to make me a mod

Ericadia
Oct 31, 2007

Not A Unicorn

christ the last two paragraphs of his reply scream super virgin

Ericadia
Oct 31, 2007

Not A Unicorn

Ericadia posted:

christ the last two paragraphs of his reply scream super virgin

dsyp!! LOL :newlol:

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Ericadia posted:

christ the last two paragraphs of his reply scream wizard

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
does anyone have that drawn picture of rms, Linus and esr in tight blue jeans and bomber jackets that was posted here a few years back? I need it for a project

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
masturbating is not a project

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Cold on a Cob posted:

masturbating is not a project

no I make it an art form :getin:

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

BeOSPOS posted:

no I make it an art form :getin:

like a pollock?

dude you might want to get your prostate checked :ohdear:

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

he may be the perfect narcissist

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
he's right about tuna and shark fins at least

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
a filthy broken clock eating its own foot cheese is still right twice a day

theadder
Dec 30, 2011



hes aged a lot hes not lookin after himself

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

duTrieux. posted:

or that bit about how he thinks developers should literally let their children starve to death rather than make money off of their software
I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do something else.

Probably programming will not be as lucrative on the new basis as it is now. But that is not an argument against the change. It is not considered an injustice that sales clerks make the salaries that they now do. If programmers made the same, that would not be an injustice either.

In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

maniacdevnull posted:

he may be the perfect autist

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Dominus Vobiscum posted:

eat feet manifesto

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord

theadder posted:

hes aged a lot hes not lookin after himself

tbf he's 60

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Dominus Vobiscum posted:

eat feet manifesto

only 18 characters.......... hmm.....

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Cold on a Cob posted:

only 18 characters.......... hmm.....

tempting

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



please dont appreciate rms in yospos, tia

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
keep reasing it as stallion

c/d is rms considered a stallion

theadder
Dec 30, 2011



time flies when ur having fun

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Captain Foo posted:

rms is gross and weird but i guess he did some cool computer things at some point

not really, no

other people did and rms maintained, copied, and/or rewrote them and took credit

funeral home DJ
Apr 21, 2003


Pillbug

Gazpacho posted:

In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

eschaton posted:

not really, no

other people did and rms maintained, copied, and/or rewrote them and took credit

lol welp

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

OldAlias posted:

There are three elements to the offence. An image must come within the terms of all three elements before it will fall foul of the offence.
Those elements are:
That the image is pornographic;
That the image is grossly offensive, disgusting, or otherwise of an obscene character, and
That the image portrays in an explicit and realistic way, one of the following extreme acts:
An act which results in or is likely to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breast or genitals;

:goatse-flag-anus-crying:

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
all major new GCC development happens on private side branches with discussion on private mailing lists. this is because RMS is on the main mailing list and he kills any real discussion of change with his stupid bullshit. nobody wants him there or cares what he has to say but he has some kind of voting power despite not contributing to the compiler in decades.

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

The Management posted:

all major new GCC development happens on private side branches with discussion on private mailing lists. this is because RMS is on the main mailing list and he kills any real discussion of change with his stupid bullshit. nobody wants him there or cares what he has to say but he has some kind of voting power despite not contributing to the compiler in decades.

couldnt they just not listen to him.

so long as the software stays super free what can he do

Fax Sender
Aug 11, 2013

kiss my ass
youd have to be autistic to think emacs is a good editor

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



FamDav posted:

couldnt they just not listen to him.

so long as the software stays super free what can he do

itd be pretty funny if they all just put him on ignore one day without telling him

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

FamDav posted:

couldnt they just not listen to him.

so long as the software stays super free what can he do

GCC is owned by the FSF. FSF appoints the steering committee. RMS is on the steering committee.

they can fork it anytime, but there's a lot of community on the current project and the current state works well enough not to cause a mass exodus. besides anyone who cares has already moved to clang.

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Fax Sender posted:

youd have to be autistic to think emacs is a good editor

emacs is a good editor, especially in its Zmacs (Eine and Zwei), Xemacs, and Hemlock incarnations. never tried the original TECO emacs (which Stallman took over from others) or Gosmacs (which Stallman copied and turned into GNU emacs).

GNU emacs is actually one of the lesser implementations, even though it's the most popular. for example, Zmacs is better in terms of how it models user interaction. M-x uses a real human-oriented command language with auto prompting and completion and help, it doesn't just demand you type in a Lisp function name and prompt you for its arguments. it was also designed for mouse use, since it was designed for Lisp Machines.

there have been a bunch of efforts over the years to do a Zmacs successor like Hemlock, Drei, and CLIMacs. Hemlock is the farthest along and written entirely in Common Lisp, the world really would be better off if people stopped putting effort into GNU emacs and put it into Hemlock. it has a sensible license too so RMS must hate it. and it was created in Pittsburgh as part of Spice Lisp (CMU Common Lisp) so even Tori should approve.

eschaton fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Oct 18, 2014

qntm
Jun 17, 2009
wikipedia's article on emacs contains more screenshots of emacs than emacs' own documentation

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Shifty Pony posted:

i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Shifty Pony posted:

i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

:vince:

Fax Sender
Aug 11, 2013

kiss my ass

Shifty Pony posted:

i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

jesus

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Shifty Pony posted:

i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

lol

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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Shifty Pony posted:

i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!"

i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"

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