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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

The Management posted:

Per friends that went to MIT, everyone hates him and wants nothing to do with him. He's on some big mailing lists where he annoys everyone with constant complaints and corrections. Avoiding RMS and making sure he doesn't know about or doesn't get to have input to anything that's going on is a big goal over there.
weird, every time i see video of him hes surrounded by star-struck (albeit cringing) fanboys

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Symbolic Butt posted:

rms is coming to brazil soon, I'll go see him and become his good friend

plz do, and report back with stories

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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why don't the mailing list admins just ban him, are they groupies?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Gazpacho posted:

why don't the mailing list admins just ban him, are they groupies?

with mentally unstable people like rms you're always cautious to not pull the rug out from them too fast in case it causes them an inordinately/unexpectedly large amount of harm

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

akadajet posted:

plz do, and report back with his laptop

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

Symbolic Butt posted:

rms is coming to brazil soon, I'll go see him and become his good friend

im doxxing this poster as a possible cockatiel or parrot who found a keyboard

enjoy youre avian ban

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
why didn't rms become a billionaire like stebe or billy g

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

lemme get rich off of this free software right quick

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Suspicious posted:

why didn't rms become a billionaire like stebe or billy g

how good are you at the SATs?

steve: sociopath
billy g: autistic sociopath (today called asperger syndome)
rms: __________

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

rms: autistic

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord

Bulgakov posted:

im doxxing this poster as a possible cockatiel or parrot who found a keyboard

enjoy youre avian ban

mods please namechange to Symbolic Cock

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


to be fair, rms' stolen laptop would make for the ultimate yostop

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

Suspicious posted:

why didn't rms become a billionaire like stebe or billy g

I went to a talk by RMS at the University of Washington and he spent a good deal of time trying to convince students about to get their BS CS (top 50) not to take a job with apple or microsoft and instead follow in his smelly, free footsteps

Then he tried, a couple of times, to auction off a little stuffed GNU or something for like 100 bux and it was really uncomfortable

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist

Suspicious posted:

why didn't rms become a billionaire like stebe or billy g

billy g and stebe produced products of value.

and washed

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Skim Milk posted:

lemme get rich off of this free software right quick

free software is free as in speech not free as in beer, also known as 'libre'

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

big scary monsters posted:

free software is free as in speech not free as in beer, also known as 'libre'

free beer doesn't come along very often

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
free* open source beer

minivanmegafun
Jul 27, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8gealMDsg

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


the best part is where he turns steve jobs into a statue

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Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe

The Management posted:

mentally ill man doesn't deal well with adversity.

I guess you could say he can't roll with the self punches :laugh:

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