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Who's copryrights assignments on first? No, whose on second...
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it's not just copyright assignment, it's all hilariousquote:My program dumped core. I investigated (using ElectricFence) and found three places in the code which indexed one cell too far. I informed Eric that I had found that his version would dump core. After a few emails, he had not taken the time to investigate quote:The TO-DO file was modified to note
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Mar 29, 2015 03:15
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I got halfway before giving up because that site it a turd on mobile safari but goddamn esr maintains being a shitlorde
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Mar 29, 2015 05:43
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somebody tl;dr it because IDG enough Fs.
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Mar 29, 2015 06:21
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esr is a giant baby
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Mar 29, 2015 06:39
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esr submits occasional and sensationally poor quality patches occasionally to ncurses then claims majority ownership rms eventually steps in, figures out it had no free license and deletes it from the fsf hosting site (hosting is a Big Deal back then) red hat does something idiotic regarding distribution and patches in the meantime but nobody cares
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Mar 29, 2015 06:52
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my favorite one was him copying verbatim the man pages from solaris lol
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Mar 29, 2015 06:59
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esr is the ultimate worthless parasite
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Mar 29, 2015 07:00
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pram posted:my favorite one was him copying verbatim the man pages from solaris lol really. lol. amazing i never heard that one but i can't say i've ever given half a poo poo about that nobody
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Mar 29, 2015 07:01
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quote:This release introduced manpages provided by Eric Raymond. In his note, Eric said: 
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Mar 29, 2015 07:06
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ahmeni posted:esr submits occasional and sensationally poor quality patches occasionally to ncurses then claims majority ownership don't forget the part about reverse-nroffing the SVR4 curses man pages as the basis for the ncurses man pages because "they're not under copyright"
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Mar 29, 2015 07:06
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pram posted:esr is the ultimate worthless parasite Have you seen Sex Tips for Geeks? He's not totally worthless. 
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Mar 29, 2015 07:13
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eschaton posted:don't forget the part about reverse-nroffing the SVR4 curses man pages as the basis for the ncurses man pages because "they're not under copyright" call me dumb but I don't think that's how copyright works
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Mar 29, 2015 07:14
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Another problem that comes up more often among geeks than elsewhere is romances that are traditional/poly mixed (one partner polyamorous by inclination, the other not -- and for reasons having to do with the sexual strategies I've discussed in my essay The Biology of Promiscuity, the poly partner is actually somewhat more likely to be the woman). Lots of people have serious trouble mustering the particular kind of confidence needed to say "no" to sexual jealousy and be successful polyamorists. This is hardly surprising; sexual jealousy is a powerful instinct which the mainstream culture surrounding us reinforces and rewards. But any mixed traditional/poly relationship has a built-in instability, and that has to be carefully negotiated to avoid the whole thing going to smash
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Mar 29, 2015 08:16
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my poly-linux lifestyle
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Mar 29, 2015 08:17
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I would kinda prefer it if it was more like a 1970s orgy sort of thing with stallmanesque dudes in a wood paneled room with shag carpet
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Mar 29, 2015 08:31
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This actually increased my respect for Dr. Stallman.
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Mar 29, 2015 13:02
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Marzzle posted:I would kinda prefer it if it was more like a 1970s orgy sort of thing with stallmanesque dudes in a wood paneled room with shag carpet shaggar carpet so you can hear it scream and feel it writhe at how Linux it all is
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Mar 29, 2015 14:56
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SYSV Fanfic posted:This actually increased my respect for Dr. Stallman. integer overflow is a hell of a thing
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Mar 29, 2015 15:04
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Soricidus posted:integer overflow is a hell of a thing No, he is now like the king solomon of shut in nerds in my book.
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Mar 29, 2015 15:08
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Yeah, I mean the dude is smelly and wierd. But he has a phd from MIT, and created a legal hack that had a profound affect on the software most of the world wide web runs on.
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Mar 29, 2015 15:15
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richard stallman is smarter than everybody posting itt and is a force for good in teh world
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Mar 29, 2015 16:08
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objectively wrong
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Mar 29, 2015 16:09
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"well steve jobs started off his gainfully employed career by plagiarising his best friend's work, was a child support deadbeat, and thought fruit smoothie enemas or whatever loving bullshit would cure his easily-curable-by-actual-medicine cancer then when that didn't work out so great he indirectly murdered somebody by stealing a liver transplant which would have gone to somebody who wasn't a complete medical writeoff by that point BUT GUYS RICHARD STALLMAN ATE SOMETHING OFF HIS FOOT ONCE EWWWWW"
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Mar 29, 2015 16:13
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Mr Dog posted:richard stallman is smarter than everybody posting itt and is a force for good in teh world lol good one
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Mar 29, 2015 16:14
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Mr Dog posted:richard stallman is smarter than everybody posting itt and is a force for good in teh world do you honestly believe this
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Mar 29, 2015 16:15
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yes because the dude is almost always right in his predictions and is dedicated to the pursuit of his ideology one of the few ideologies that start with "we need to defend peoples' freedoms and make the world a better place" and don't end with "so the way to go about that is the mass murder of groups X Y and Z"
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Mar 29, 2015 16:18
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Mr Dog posted:the dude is almost always right in his predictions such as "gnu hurd will be ready in less than 25 years"?
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Mar 29, 2015 16:27
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Suspicious Dish posted:do you honestly believe this Actually, at the risk of being un-cool: yes. I'm not going to idolize him, but there was a period of time where Stallman and the FSF were highly relevant. Reading this licensing crap made me wonder if anyone one else could have harnessed the power of raw autism to create a functioning userland. Laughing at him now is like laughing when dick van dyke pisses his depends.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:28
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Soricidus posted:such as "gnu hurd will be ready in less than 25 years"? gnu hurd has been more or less working for 15 years turns out, nobody needed it
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Mar 29, 2015 16:35
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Mr Dog posted:"well steve jobs started off his gainfully employed career by plagiarising his best friend's work, was a child support deadbeat, and thought fruit smoothie enemas or whatever loving bullshit would cure his easily-curable-by-actual-medicine cancer then when that didn't work out so great he indirectly murdered somebody by stealing a liver transplant which would have gone to somebody who wasn't a complete medical writeoff by that point BUT GUYS RICHARD STALLMAN ATE SOMETHING OFF HIS FOOT ONCE EWWWWW" one of these people helped found the most profitable company ever, the other helped found a sideshow at best the free market has spoken i feel
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Mar 29, 2015 16:35
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Mr Dog posted:yes kill the rich lol
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Mar 29, 2015 16:35
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Actually, at the risk of being un-cool: yes. I'm not going to idolize him, but there was a period of time where Stallman and the FSF were highly relevant. Reading this licensing crap made me wonder if anyone one else could have harnessed the power of raw autism to create a functioning userland. rms is more relevant than ever he may be a giant ball of autism but that's not a reason to disregard his ideas
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Mar 29, 2015 16:36
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Forums Terrorist posted:one of these people helped found the most profitable company ever, the other helped found a sideshow at best Victor Hugo posted:Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menaechmus of talent, has one dupe,—history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:52
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Mr Dog posted:yes he successfully predicted 14 of the last 6 things he warned about that came true. the dude has an ethics system i disagree with (he believes that proprietary software is so fundamentally evil that you should quit your job writing proprietary software and work as a waiter instead). he's fully supported by donations and obviously has an extremely serious mental illness, never causing him to understand what it means to earn a living. he thinks his filing cabinet in his office is a fridge, and had cheese and sandwiches when i visited. he's actively destroying gcc and gdb by making them worse tools hoping that the technical workarounds keep naughty developers at bay. meanwhile, llvm is just plowing through, showing us what a good tool could be. the llvm codebase is modular and modern, and gcc's is intentionally tightly coupled. by holding on to his strict fundamentalism, the gnu operating system has steadily grown increasingly irrelevant. nobody uses gplv3. gplv3 was a flop. when the fsf is looking for the "most free hardware", that doesn't necessarily mean that the firmware is open-source. it just means that the firmware is burned onto a ROM and you can't upgrade it. the ethics system there is that the manufacturer shouldn't have any freedoms you don't have, but you usually end up buying closed poo poo you can't replace. otherwise, all my conversations with him have been about him correcting me, a considerable number of times, to say "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux". this is on a mailing list of a GNU project full of engineers who already know the distinction. i was saying "Linux" because i was specifically referencing a specific part of the Linux kernel, which i gave a link to.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:52
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oh yeah. he actively tried to shut down a widely successful crowdfunding campaign raising $60,000 because the site it was hosted on used non-free javascript.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:54
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I don't understand. What non profit isn't supported by donations?
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Mar 29, 2015 16:57
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lmao if you think software freedom matters in a significant way to the majority of people no one cares if their software is open source because most people are not computer literate and thus even if it were they wouldn't be able to do anything with it so malicious actors can just slip poo poo in and you're back to square one
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Mar 29, 2015 16:57
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i used to be more wowed the by the idea of open source when i was in high school, but these days i'm just willing to pay for poo poo that works out of the box so i can get things done
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Mar 29, 2015 16:59
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and don't even try and say "oh but the ~community~ will catch it" because we all saw how that went with openssl the prevalent trend in open source software it seems is to just do what red hat and canonical and all the big companies are doing and helping them fix poo poo; that's not open source, that's unpaid labour
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