https://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1616237320
As an aspiring mathematicians you know that a value can be measured only in comparison. So lets compare Richard 'Poor Pedo' Stallman (68) to his arch nemesis - Bill Gates (65).
While Poor Stallman was fucking bitches and wasting time at MIT, Bill Gates worked hard on Microsoft BASIC, which proved so good that every second microcomputer had it in ROM.
When Poor Stallman was drinking vodka and puking it back as GPL, Bill Gates used the money he earned from BASIC to organize a team of talented developers to create MS DOS. Costing juts $40 in 1981, DOS was a cheap and affordable alternative to CP/M, which cost $240. CP/M author was so mad, he got a heart attack and went out of business.
When Poor Stallman was busy stealing Gosling Emacs and Pascal Compiler code to present them as their own GNU Emacs and GCC, Bill Gates's Microsoft published Windows - a cheap alternative to MacOS. Windows was also compatible with DOS and all the Microsoft Basic programs (while the competition never bothered to retain backward compatibility). In fact, you can run DOS programs (outside of self-booting ones) and ancient Microsoft Basic code even today on Windows 10. There is even a video which demonstrates upgrading a single system from DOS to Windows 10. That is some commitment!
When Poor Stallman was claiming Linux as GNU/Linux, Bill Gates made rich all his college friends and early employees, like Steve Ballmer, while Microsoft has published Windows 95 - OS so simple and braindead that even a complete nigger can use it. It is still unknown to science if niggers can use GNU/Linux and write Emacs Lisp - so far there were no occurrences.
When Poor Stallman started openly working for American enemies, frequenting RussiaToday, supporting conspiracy theories and bitching about politics. Bill Gates retired from leading Microsoft to invest into developing countless other technology areas and run charities intended to actually improve people lives. One of them is technology creating drinkable water out of literal swamp water. Others patents are more questionable, like the vaccines from malaria, which kills millions of niggers each years, keeping their population in check. So now some people rightfully blame Gates for helping these niggers to survive.
When Poor Bum was kicked by his commie friends out of FSF for being a pedo and a toxic Russian asset, Bill Gates had accomplished everything an IT personality can ever dream accomplishing in his life.
Now tell us why kids should follow the Stallman's example, instead of the Bill Gates's one?
If you dislike Bill Gates, we can compare Stallman to Steve Jobs or Jack Tramiel. But something tells me non of these comparisons will be favorable to Poor Stallman.
Be grateful for gcc and emacs, troll.
so far there were no occurrences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)
grateful for gcc
which is worse than clang and MSC in just every aspect.
He is the [...] grandson of artist Daniel Fox, creator of the Monopoly Man.[15]
huh. I have heard his name before, but never read into his past. Cool dude.
>>3
Doesn't Clang only support a few platforms?
OS so simple and braindead that even a complete nigger can use it.
mistake
>>4
<Doesn't GCC only support a few platforms?
this place is dead even for 'trolls`
clang was released 20 years after gcc. Without gcc there would have been no Linux.
Without gcc there would have been no Linux.
the right thing
Without GCC there would have been no Clang.
Rejoice, for he has returned!
>>8
the right thing these 'compiler collection` architectures are garbage fire
>>9
What's the significance of this? I did not notice an changes in FSF activities since his resignation.
>>11
The FSF was considerably less beardy during Stallman's vacation.
>>11
>>12
The cult of the rainbow socks has already planted its seeds.
>>13
So... any actual changes?
I'm a single atheist white man, 54, reputedly intelligent, with unusual interests in politics, science, music and dance.
I'd like to meet a woman with varied interests, curious about the world, comfortable expressing her likes and dislikes (I hate struggling to guess), delighting in her ability to fascinate a man and in being loved tenderly, who values joy, truth, beauty and justice more than "success"--so we can share bouts of intense, passionately kind awareness of each other, alternating with tolerant warmth while we're absorbed in other aspects of life.
My 23-year-old child, the Free Software Movement, occupies most of my life, leaving no room for more children, but I still have room to love a sweetheart if she doesn't need to spend time with me every day. I spend a lot of my time traveling to give speeches, often to Europe, Asia and Latin America; it would be nice if you were free to travel with me some of the time.
Reply and we'll see where it leads.
>>15
What a chad
https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io
RMS has a history of mistreating women and making them feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and unwelcome. For incidents relating to RMS and MIT, please see 0.
RMS’s views on rape and child sex laws were publicly discussed in the Fall of 2019, when Selam G wrote about them.1 Especially chilling is when Stallman addresses the accusations that Marvin Minsky sexually assaulted one of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking victims (Virginia Giuffre) by saying “but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.”2 RMS decries that this is not “sexual assault” because “‘assaulting’ presumes that he applied force or violence” while the report being discussed “says no such thing. Only that they had sex.”3 Rather than discussing this further, let’s instead focus on his personal web site, where he also shares his views on minors being "entirely willing."4 (Note: While several news reports misrepresented Stallman's position while discussing allegations against Minsky, Stallman has previously expressed opinions that were consistent with the inaccurate portrayal.)
He regularly and repeatedly makes comments about “the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as 'rape' even if they are willing."5 He compares United States law to Sudanese law in saying that “US laws that define 'rape' to include voluntary sex with under N years of age (where N varies)” and that “both laws falsify the meaning of ‘rape.’”6
Of a woman having sex with a minor, he said “I wish an attractive woman had 'abused' me that way when I was 14.”7 He directly addressed child pornography by saying that “making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.”8 He defended pedophilia, in general, in saying that “there is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”9 (Note: RMS apologized for this comment on 14 September, 2019.Citation. Edit made: 24 March, 2021 - 08:50 EDT.)
In 2015 and 2016 RMS made three posts on his website about Down’s syndrome. He recommended that, should someone find out they are pregnant and the child tests positive for Down’s syndrome “the right course of action for the woman is to terminate the pregnancy.”11 He referred to people deciding to “carry fetuses with Down’s syndrome to term” as “perverse” and said that there is “nothing virtuous” in “[increasing] the number of people that have Down’s syndrome.”12 He also said that “when a fetus has Down's syndrome, you should abort it and try again.”13 On at least one occasion RMS likened having a child with Down’s syndrome to having a pet.14 (Note: Link 14 added 25 March, 2021 - 11:33 EDT.)
RMS has spent years on a campaign against using people’s correct pronouns. This is poorly disguised transphobia. In the original publication of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, he said “there are various ways to express gender neutrality in third-person singular pronouns in English; you do not have to use 'they.'”15 This text has since been updated, but is still transphobic.16 The main page on his web site includes the statement that “‘They’ is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns.”17
So just because somebody knows the difference between "present herself as willing" and "be willing," and because he said "they is plural," you want him to be kicked out of the FSF, which has absolutely nothing to do with either of those things?
Also, work on your formatting
That Nazi literally demands to genocide the down syndrome children, while having nothing against his old slimy pedophile friend Minsky raping little girls.
New issue
Please correct: This repository is in violation of Github Community Guidelines, Github Acceptable Use Policies, several US State and Federal Laws, and various organizational Codes of Conduct #2250
This is poorly disguised transphobia.
Please get better at lying: https://textboard.org/prog/239#t239p29
several news reports misrepresented
Please get better at lying: https://textboard.org/prog/239#t239p24
Down’s syndrome
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#31_October_2016_(Down's_syndrome)
""" When children with Down's syndrome are born, that's a different situation. They are human beings and I think they deserve the best possible care."""
>>20
This is pretty good.
https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/pull/1434
>>19
He doesn't demand anything, and he never defended rape.
Did you ever read a single word he said or do you just imagine he said what you want?
Stallman isn't great, but not the devil
Caused a major and entirely avoidable fracture of the community with the Open Source movement
Stopped reading there.
Dear Mr. Billg,
I URGENTLY REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE.
I am greeting you with all sincereness! I got your email name surfing the internet, i do not know you, but hope a meet a friend and brother. For the beneficence your kind attention, Mr. Billg sir, I must apologize for jumping into your private email address, i am very sorry indeed. There was no other way of passing this information out to solicit your interest and help.
I am MR. DARL McBRIDE of the company SCO/Caldera in the North American state of UTAH. I am writing to you because with you help i am hoping to justfully claim monies amounting to US $3,000,000,000 (three thousand million dollars) that is denied me and my company SCO/Caldera wrongfully by miscreants and EVILDOERS of the worst order. I think you too may be able to do yourself a bit of good along the way. I supply the details hereinunder and withal.
Let me exchange with you the history of the matter. About ten years ago my company SCO/Caldera known then as SCO obtained a valuable JEWL. Nor am i speaking of an ordinary “DIAMOND” or “RUBY” that is to be dug out of the ground. No this is a much valued figure-of-speech JEWL made by the great MOTHER BELL to govern the running of computer machines this JEWL was called THE UNIX.
As a man of the world, Mr. Billg sir, you will know that no computer machine can be properly goverened without THE UNIX. It is thusly that my company SCO/Caldera justifably owns all the intellectual selling rights of THE UNIX from the North American state of UTAH to the London Borough of HACKNEY-on-the-Marshes. And now we have many people these days is enjoying the use of computer machines, what with the upcoming of THE INTERENET and WEB. But hardly nobody is paying my company SCO/Caldera no monies. There is a lady in the North American state of FLORIDA who uses THE SCO XENIX to keep the bookings for her motel who is upgrading every year. But she is paying only US $139.99 a pop (one hundred and thirty nine dollars ninety-nine cents) which does not go very far these days, and besides she won’t see sixty-five again If You Know What i Mean.
Now why only does Mrs. Kimble purchase the license from my company SCO/Caldera? I do investigate it and i discover that some idle and felonious programmers have made a THE UNIX on their own which they are herinafter calling THE LINUX. And it turns out that these persons are putting this away for nothing on THE INTERENET and WEB, and folks are utilising THE LINUX to govern there computer machines when they ought to be using THE UNIX that is owned by my company SCO/Caldera. Next i figure, how come this THE LINUX works as good as THE UNIX. Then it comes to me. This THE LINUX must containered some bits that are copied right off THE UNIX. THE LINUX people steals our JEWL. And i am talking to the wife’s cousin Josh who is an expert with computer machines and he says it is all down to SOURCES. Josh gets SOURCES for THE LINUX off THE INTERENET (although this is a waste of time, as it turns out that my company SCO/Caldera sells THE LINUX too) and we looks at them, and it turns out there are an awful lot of SOURCES. But Josh is good lad sticks with it, and he finds this file “STDI.OH” in THE LINUX and it turns out there is also a file “STDI.OH” in THE UNIX which is pretty much the same ball of cheese. This is the PROOF i have, although Josh is good lad still looking for more SOURCES.
Then i think who is my company SCO/Caldera to sue? All these idle and felonious programmers making THE LINUX and giving it away, they have no monies so no good to sue them. My company SCO/Caldera is selling THE LINUX, but we are not allowed to sue ourselves BY LAW, besides we only have Mrs. Kimble’s license monies. So i decide to sue INTERNATIONAL BIG-BLUE MACHINES (IBM) which didn’t make THE LINUX and doesn’t sell THE LINUX but have got many shedloads of the folding stuff i hear. But Mrs. Kimble’s US $139.99 (one hundred and thirty nine dollars ninety-nine cents) does not go far with Attorney. That is where you coming in, Mr. Billg sir. If it touches your mind you could purchase and own a license of your own to our JEWL which is THE UNIX, then my company SCO/Caldera could use the monies in pursuant of our justiful claim, and when we win, we would be very careful to look after our special good friends If You Know What i Mean. Also, perhaps you have a motel of your own that wants a booking system.
Email me the soonest for a price, i can make good terms for special good friends like you. I trust that you will reply to this cause with the maxium urgentness
Your loving brother
DARL McBRIDE (MR.)
Kat Walsh is resigning from the FSF board of directors. She voted against Stallman reinstatement and not surprisingly is also a Twitter user.
https://twitter.com/mindspillage/status/1374955150054289412
https://twitter.com/mindspillage/status/1374448587388588037
The current board is:
Geoffrey Knauth
Gerald J. Sussman
Henry Poole
Odile Bénassy
Richard Matthew Stallman
https://www.fsf.org/news/update-on-work-to-improve-governance-at-the-fsf
FSF president Geoffrey Knauth announced, "I commit myself to resign as an FSF officer, director, and voting member as soon as there is a clear path for new leadership assuring continuity of the FSF’s mission and compliance with fiduciary requirements."
Clearly, RMS reinstatement was the doing of the Sussman. Now imagine the kvetching when Stallman becomes president again.
He doesn't demand anything, and he never defended rape.
Because Stallman believe that rape is not rape. I.e. the "she provoked it herself / should had a hijab" school of thought
Stallman isn't great, but not the devil
Stallman is a literal Russian asset. He has willingly betrayed his country and every single citizen to work for the enemy and undermine the blooming American software industry, which was entirely founded on the concept of copyright. Likely Stallman was recruited on the dawn of his career through some communist connection, when USSR was still alive. Same with Epstein.
>>29-30
You have to go back.
Steve Jobs = BAD
Bill Gates = BAD
Vladimir Putin = GOOD
Joseph Stalin = GOOD
Stallman is actually a GOOD man. He is someone who sticks so uncompromisingly with his ideals that even reactionists respect him. Everything he says and does is motivated by the higher good.
All they have against him is that he's creepy with women and to a lesser extent that he's socially awkward and treat people who disagree with him like shit. So fucking what? He's never harmed anyone.
>>32
Back to the imageboards with you.
34
Yes. RussiaToday type "GOOD."
Thanks, crossposters!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CIOB-3904
Richard Stallman Calls Edward Snowden a 'Great Hero'
I.e. Stallman calls "Great Hero" a Russian paid spy, who betrayed his country and then hid in Russia.
https://i.imgur.com/3oWWJqR.jpg
On the right is a Russian spy, who managed a Russian funded anti-western propaganda project.
In the center - another Russian spy, living in Russia.
On the left is Richard Stallman.
https://i.imgur.com/mVtE2D5.jpg
On the right is a prominent Stalinist-type communist Noam Chomsky, who is also a big supporter of Cuban dictatorship.
On the left is mr. Stallman.
>>32
Isn't it Vladimir Putin = BAD for communist, since he's more relatable to the tsar?
Noam Chomsky.
Stalinist
Ask me how I know you're American.
>>38
Russian paid spy Edward "Great Hero" Snowden is on the board of directory of Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that has signed the letter against Stallman. Was he directed by the Kremlin to liquidate Stallman?
Was he directed by the Kremlin to liquidate Stallman?
Possible. Given that Stallman is such a toxic failure. Then again, Russians just love to dump their pets in the forest.
>>41
I'm a citizen of Russia, but I know all the major pro-Russian shills in the US of A.
1. Putin is restoring USSR.
2. Putin pays in cash or bitcoins.
3. US commies will ally with the devil himself.
Putin is such a communist he constantly sabotages the Russian communist party and he sends communists in his country to jail to torture them. Americans lol
Oh fuck I just saw he also called Snowden a "traitor". Who let the Qoomers in here?
It's a pretty lame troll, just ignore it. At least FrozenVoid has signed the support letter.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were not traitors!!!1111 FREE LIKE IN FREEDOM!!111
Ok, Ivan.
Also,
https://www.fsf.org/patrons/fy2014
https://www.fsf.org/patrons/fy2020
If you believe them, in 2020 their main funding came from that Russia-connected conman Mark Karpeles, while in 2014 they were funded by Google, IBM and HP. ( https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/04/29/the-lawyer-of-alleged-mt-gox-hacker-dies-in-russia )
Putin's entire government consists of the members of the communist party: https://ibb.co/nzpVK8R
It's a pretty lame troll
With all these replies (you)s and "feeding the troll", I don't think it can be """lame""" but surely not the best or even close.
FrozenVoid has signed the support letter.
Based.
He doesn't suck dick of a Russian paid influencer and conspiracy theorist, therefore he is a troll.
Ok, Volodya. Also reported you to fsb@fsb.ru for shilling so obviously. Hope they will cut you salary and your ugly tataro-mongol offsprings will die from hunger :D
Someone send Chomsky an email about this.
>>52
I don't think this place can handle chomsky shitposting here, it's already bad enough with richard, danial and theo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COoRi3g-tyw
You can get arrested without a reason - Richard Stallman
RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.
>>54
Thanks for sharing, it's always a pleasure to hear RMS' opinion. I should watch RT more.
SEND STALLMAN TO RUSSIA
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#10_December_2020_(War_on_terror)
It is true that Putin has corrupted and destroyed democracy in Russia and runs a corrupt and repressive regime, but war is not the way to deal with that.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#7_September_2020_(Navalny_poisoning)
*Navalny poisoning forces Merkel's party to ask: how do we hit back at Putin?* Here's a suggestion: switch to renewable energy as fast as possible. It's vitally necessary anyway, and it will eliminate demand for Russia's key exports (fossil fuels).
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-nov-feb.html#6_December_2019_(Turkey_in_NATO)
Bullies like Erdoğan, Putin and the conman use threats and shakedowns to get what they want, but they are no one's friend or ally.
Moscow Police Arrest up to 200 Ahead of Election Protest. Putin openly visits contempt on democracy as an act of intimidation, like what the bully does in the US.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#2_April_2018_(Hotel_deal_in_Latvia)
The cheater tried to set up a hotel deal in Latvia with businessmen linked to Putin, and also to corruption. This particular proposed deal was not necessarily wrongdoing on the cheater's part, but the long list of situations where he has been involved with associates of Putin adds up to a pattern of support for a foreign tyrant.
I dare Richard Stallman to try his antics in Russia. US indeed became too liberal. A much better approach to handling the likes of Stallman would be the classic Russian "cho s huiesosom ceremonitsia konchat etogo pidora." Instead of all this "cancellation" and human rights nonsense, just make sure Stallman will get under a truck. Like KGB dealt with Tsoi, Dyagileva and all other problematic influencers. You can't build capitalism wearing white gloves.
Judging by the number of Russian names in the support petition, Stallman seems very popular in Russia.
Russians love his idea of liquidating private companies, and government completely controlling the software development, like in North Korea. Russians are evil socialist orcs, and love everything evil.
Russians are evil socialist orcs, and love everything evil.
You should make a video game about that.
There are already several games: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/5893/video-games-war-russia
>>62
I love to play the Eurasian Dynasty in Earth 2150.
Elliot Rodger is Eurasian.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#15_February_2021_(Fight_the_system)
I agree with Ms Farmand's criticism of capitalism as it is practiced by powerful companies in the US today — plutocracy, extractivism and dooH niboR — but I don't believe in eliminating all capitalism (all private business). Rather, I advocate eliminating the political power of business, and restoring democracy.
american capitalism - bad, russian putinism - good.
Ok. So when is Mr Stallman going to join Snowden in the snow den?
Richard 'RussiaToday mouthpiece' Stallman doesn't openly admit being pro-Putin, yet pretends to be a geopolitician and and claims that "war is not the way to deal with" Russia.
Ok. But please remind us, has Stallman himself wrote a single line of code? How much taxes did this non-corrupt super-talented softrware engineer paid to IRS recently? Because we know how much taxes Microsoft pays, in addition to running charities, like "help blacks kids learning computers, so they wont become gangsters." I.e. is there are any profit in having Stallman onboard? Or even a complete nigger is a better US citizen than Stallman, because the nigger does some basic work in prison, while Stallman just bitches on Youtube.
Ok. But please remind us, has Stallman himself wrote a single line of code?
More than you ever will.
Stuff plundered from Gosling Emacs and modified by rich volunteer kids with too much free time on their hand.
Ok. Anyway, who uses Emacs in 21st century? I know a lot of people still use Basic, but Emacs LISP? Really?!!
>>70
You really need to sharpen your trolling skills.
My Microsoft Visual Studio skills are good enough, and I got them without the carpal tunnel syndrome. I still miss the VS 6.0, because the modern VS has that flat UI reminiscent of Emacs.
>>70,72
Oh you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection
In an effort to bootstrap the GNU operating system, Richard Stallman asked Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the author of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (also known as the Free University Compiler Kit) for permission to use that software for GNU. When Tanenbaum advised him that the compiler was not free, and that only the university was free, Stallman decided to write a new compiler.[10] Stallman's initial plan[11] was to rewrite an existing compiler from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from Pastel to C with some help from Len Tower and others.[12] Stallman wrote a new C front end for the Livermore compiler, but then realized that it required megabytes of stack space, an impossibility on a 68000 Unix system with only 64 KB, and concluded he would have to write a new compiler from scratch.[11] None of the Pastel compiler code ended up in GCC, though Stallman did use the C front end he had written.[11]
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html -> The first steps
Shortly before beginning the GNU Project, I heard about the Free University Compiler Kit, also known as VUCK. (The Dutch word for “free” is written with a v.) This was a compiler designed to handle multiple languages, including C and Pascal, and to support multiple target machines. I wrote to its author asking if GNU could use it. He responded derisively, stating that the university was free but the compiler was not. I therefore decided that my first program for the GNU Project would be a multilanguage, multiplatform compiler. Hoping to avoid the need to write the whole compiler myself, I obtained the source code for the Pastel compiler, which was a multiplatform compiler developed at Lawrence Livermore Lab. It supported, and was written in, an extended version of Pascal, designed to be a system-programming language. I added a C front end, and began porting it to the Motorola 68000 computer. But I had to give that up when I discovered that the compiler needed many megabytes of stack space, and the available 68000 Unix system would only allow 64k. I then realized that the Pastel compiler functioned by parsing the entire input file into a syntax tree, converting the whole syntax tree into a chain of “instructions”, and then generating the whole output file, without ever freeing any storage. At this point, I concluded I would have to write a new compiler from scratch. That new compiler is now known as GCC; none of the Pastel compiler is used in it, but I managed to adapt and use the C front end that I had written. But that was some years later; first, I worked on GNU Emacs.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768
Frustrated, Steele took it upon himself to the solve the problem. He gathered together the four different macro packages and began assembling a chart documenting the most useful macro commands. In the course of implementing the design specified by the chart, Steele says he attracted Stallman's attention. "He started looking over my shoulder, asking me what I was doing," recalls Steele. For Steele, a soft-spoken hacker who interacted with Stallman infrequently, the memory still sticks out. Looking over another hacker's shoulder while he worked was a common activity at the AI Lab. Stallman, the TECO maintainer at the lab, deemed Steele's work "interesting" and quickly set off to complete it. "As I like to say, I did the first 0.001 percent of the implementation, and Stallman did the rest," says Steele with a laugh.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768
Although Stallman felt anger toward the hackers who orchestrated this petty form of ostracism, the Symbolics controversy dredged up a new kind of anger, the anger of a person about to lose his home. When Symbolics stopped sending over its source-code changes, Stallman responded by holing up in his MIT offices and rewriting each new software feature and tool from scratch. Frustrating as it may have been, it guaranteed that future Lisp Machine users had unfettered access to the same features as Symbolics users.
It also guaranteed Stallman's legendary status within the hacker community. Already renowned for his work with Emacs, Stallman's ability to match the output of an entire team of Symbolics programmers-a team that included more than a few legendary hackers itself-still stands has one of the major human accomplishments of the Information Age, or of any age for that matter. Dubbing it a "master hack" and Stallman himself a "virtual John Henry of computer code," author Steven Levy notes that many of his Symbolics-employed rivals had no choice but to pay their idealistic former comrade grudging respect. Levy quotes Bill Gosper, a hacker who eventually went to work for Symbolics in the company's Palo Alto office, expressing amazement over Stallman's output during this period: I can see something Stallman wrote, and I might decide it was bad (probably not, but somebody could convince me it was bad), and I would still say, "But wait a minute-Stallman doesn't have anybody to argue with all night over there. He's working alone! It's incredible anyone could do this alone!" See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 426.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768
Guy Steele expresses similar admiration. Currently a research scientist for Sun Microsystems, he remembers Stallman primarily as a "brilliant programmer with the ability to generate large quantities of relatively bug-free code." Although their personalities didn't exactly mesh, Steele and Stallman collaborated long enough for Steele to get a glimpse of Stallman's intense coding style. He recalls a notable episode in the late 1970s when the two programmers banded together to write the editor's "pretty print" feature. Originally conceived by Steele, pretty print was another keystroke-triggerd feature that reformatted Emacs' source code so that it was both more readable and took up less space, further bolstering the program's WYSIWIG qualities. The feature was strategic enough to attract Stallman's active interest, and it wasn't long before Steele wrote that he and Stallman were planning an improved version.
"We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele. "He was perfectly willing to let me type, but he was also telling me what to type.
The programming session lasted 10 hours. Throughout that entire time, Steele says, neither he nor Stallman took a break or made any small talk. By the end of the session, they had managed to hack the pretty print source code to just under 100 lines. "My fingers were on the keyboard the whole time," Steele recalls, "but it felt like both of our ideas were flowing onto the screen. He told me what to type, and I typed it."
The length of the session revealed itself when Steele finally left the AI Lab. Standing outside the building at 545 Tech Square, he was surprised to find himself surrounded by nighttime darkness. As a programmer, Steele was used to marathon coding sessions. Still, something about this session was different. Working with Stallman had forced Steele to block out all external stimuli and focus his entire mental energies on the task at hand. Looking back, Steele says he found the Stallman mind-meld both exhilarating and scary at the same time. "My first thought afterward was: it was a great experience, very intense, and that I never wanted to do it again in my life."
>>69
I'm curious about his newer code.
Stallman wanted to steal the Dutch compiler, but Tanenbaum told him to fuck off. Therefore Stallman stole the Livermore compiler (which was apparently public domain) and relicensed it under his own communist GPL.
Ok. So any reason we should prefer GCC over MSC or Clang?
and concluded he would have to write a new compiler from scratch.[11] None of the Pastel compiler code ended up in GCC, though Stallman did use the C front end he had written.[11] >>74
At this point, I concluded I would have to write a new compiler from scratch. That new compiler is now known as GCC; none of the Pastel compiler is used in it, but I managed to adapt and use the C front end that I had written. >>74
Pastel compiler code had variable changed and renamed GCC.
Ok. Still there are a lot of other contributors:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html
doesn't look like any of Stallman's renamed Pastel variables exist in the modern GCC. Still a good point to show the Stallman's true nature, would be getting the earliest GCC and comparing its architecture to Pastel, then to the modern GCC, to if the Stallman contributions had any value.
Epilogue: The Last of the True Hackers
Richard Stallman, also known as RMS as per his initials, was called by Levy the "last of the true hackers". This did not mean "last real hacker", but rather the last faithful member of the class of hackers that Levy called the "true hackers". Stallman was getting a physics degree from Harvard at the same time as he was hacking at MIT's Tech Square building in the AI Lab. He was for people cooperating instead of competing, and he did not like computers that restricted user access to computers through passwords. He advocated choosing the empty password so anyone could use the computers. RMS also developed the text editor EMACS and shared it on the condition that those who modify its source code also share their modifications.
While RMS was fighting to keep the Hacker Ethic going with the computers at MIT, Richard Greenblatt and other AI hackers came up with a LISP machine and sought to form a company to sell them. Greenblatt was unwilling to yield to business pressures and wanted to form a company that would maintain the Hacker Ethic. Many others disagreed and the result was two competing companies. LISP Machine Incorporated, or LMI, was headed by Greenblatt, and Symbolics was headed by Russ Noftsker. Symbolics hired most of the lab hackers, and a schism was created between the two groups of hackers, to the point where some would not even talk to each other.
Stallman saw a whole hacker culture die as the existing hackers left for these companies and there were no new hackers to fill their shoes. RMS held Symbolics responsible for the lab's death, and set out to help their competitor LMI in response. RMS subsequently launched development of the GNU operating system, based on the UNIX design but following the principles of free software.
All the hackers from the Lab became successful entrepreneurs and got immensely rich.
Except Stallman.
Poor Stallman
At that time I was working on the GNU system (a free software Unix-like operating system that many people erroneously call “Linux”).
fuckin clown.
If I had a bit more time on my hand, I would have made a Sierra-style graphic adventure: The Quest for Free Software. Stallman would fit perfectly as caricature protagonist. The game would have began with a Stallman convincing suckers to write code for him and taking other peoples code, then proceeding to picketing with "AMERICA IS THE ENEMY OF YOUR FREEDOM" sign. During the course of the game, Stallman would be getting fatter and fatter, leading to new gameplay possibilities.
Of course the character name will have to be changed to something like Bitchard Gnollman
Free Software != Free Speech:
https://i.imgur.com/BFDgAkw.png
Being young and stupid, I was too hypnotized by Stallman's communist ideas and wasted my precious time contributing to numerous GPL projects. But then I've grown up, and my parents have died in a car accident. That is when I have discovered that free software doesn't pay my bills. Now I'm homeless and unemployed. Thank you, dear comrade Stallman.
Free software sucked my dick once.
>>87
Same thing, but I don't care. I'm free.
https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/issues/5526
You seem to be from Russia, as well
Apparently Stallman is being defended mostly by Russians and that crazed libreboot pedo-trannie.
Maybe he should just move to Russia?
The trannie needs a free one-way ticket to Russia too - Putin could enjoy some help building USSR 2.0.
The whole FSF thing is like these MLM schemes, except you're not even promised any profit. Imagine going door to door selling crappy Amway products, but without your time being compensated even the slightest.
>>90
What the fuck are github discussions? The fuck is this shit?
communist
dear comrade Stallman
=> >>65
Russia
Putin
=> >>57
Richard Stallman taught us that
- In America "you can get arrested without a reason."
- Russian spy "Edward Snowden is a Great Hero"
- "publishing of leaked secret [American] information" is journalism, and not spying or sabotage.
- It is wrong that "the US government has persecuted Julian Assange for a decade for Wikileaks' journalism."
- "US today — plutocracy, extractivism and dooH niboR"
- "US government doesn't try to operate fair taxation"
- American "democracy is a sham"
- "We must defeat [American] plutocracy"
- "War is not the way to deal with" the totalitarian regimes.
- Pre-teen children can "appear entirely willing."
- Writing software unpaid makes you "free as in freedom."
- There is nothing wrong with the Red Star GNU/Linux being used in North Korea as the totalitarian surveillance tool tracking any non approved communication. GNU GPL completely approves such use, because it gives their government users "freedom."
- "Facebook is surveillance monster."
- American corporations are the "enemy of your freedom", despite them creating jobs, quality products and paying taxes.
- It is totally okay to work for totalitarian regimes, speak propaganda on RussiaToday and getting paid in bitcoins by Karpeles.
- Criticizing Stallman and his cult is a taboo, and will get you banned from all related IRC channels and forums.
Got banned from the entire freenode, for sending that message to archlinux-offtopic
https://imgur.com/a/4UqmPAp
https://imgur.com/a/fhZhHMR
No. Linux has nothing to do with free speech.
(America)*
https://politics.theonion.com/ted-cruz-decries-voting-rights-bill-as-shameless-power-1846553352
Ted Cruz Decries Voting Rights Bill As Shameless Power Grab By American People To Control Country
WASHINGTON—Calling the proposed law “dangerous” and “unprecedented”, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) decried a new voting rights bill Thursday as a shameless power grab by the American people to control the country. “The proposed legislation is nothing more than a brazen attempt by the calculating American people to seize congress by electing representatives,” said Cruz, who warned that the nation’s 328 million residents “would stop at nothing” to carry out their sinister ploy. “There’s no way the U.S. population would be pushing for voting rights if it didn’t mean there was something to be gained. It’s a transparent attempt to drive Republicans out of power by allowing Americans who have opinions contrary to our own to vote against us, and we won’t stand for it. Clearly, the American people are way out of touch with the GOP.” At press time, Cruz had raised concerns the bill would lead to a wave of non-senators casting ballots.
American corporations
paying taxes
comedy gold
American corporations
creating jobs
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/30/at-and-t-tax-cut-job-layoffs-store-closed
AT&T said Trump's tax cut would create jobs – now it's laying off thousands of workers
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, the telecoms giant AT&T has announced permanent closures of hundreds of retail stores around the US and laid off thousands of workers.
The closures and losses include 320 company-owned retail stores announced in November and December 2020 and 250 stores announced in June 2020, including an estimated 3,400 cuts in technician, clerical, managerial and executive roles.
The moves come despite the company’s keen support for a major corporate tax cut under Donald Trump, which it claimed would spur it to create jobs – not cut them.
AT&T is also closing dozens of retail stores this spring around the US, including three stores in the Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, area where workers and their union, the Communications Workers of America Local 7250, are pushing back against the cuts.
Criticizing Stallman and his cult is a taboo, and will get you banned from all related IRC channels and forums.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jan-apr.html#8_March_2018_(Support_for_free_speech)
An analysis of survey data suggests that US Liberals mostly support free speech for views they oppose, even more broadly than they did decades ago. This is good news, since the loss of freedom of speech about political views leads to the sort of tyranny we see congealing in China.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jan-apr.html#6_March_2018_(The_free_speech_of_bigots)
I respect the free speech of bigots, not because I agree with what they say, but rather despite the fact that I disagree with them. I am sure that if some views come to be censored, they won't be the plutocrats' views, or the bigots' views. Rather, the views that criticize them will be censored.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jan-apr.html#5_February_2018_(Poland's_Holocaust_ghosts)
I agree with Friedland in condemning laws that prohibit statements of views about history. Whether it is the genocide of the Jews, or the genocide of the Armenians, or any other, forbidding disagreement about history is itself tyranny.
freenode is centrally managed. Staffers or staff (as IRC operators are called) have the same access across all servers.
Some operations that would normally only apply to one server (like K-lines) are propagated across the whole network. Servers are "donated" to the network, rather than "linked".[6]
Robert Levin (16 December 1955 – 16 September 2006),[38][39] also known as lilo, was the founder of the freenode IRC network
Levin mismanaged funds intended for the OPN, quoting him as writing that they went "to paying bills, to paying the rent, to buying food and necessities."[40]
How come Stallman's followers created the most corrupt and totalitarian IRC network? Maybe because you can't steal all the donations, without grabbing all the control?
IRC networks aren't countries. Websites aren't countries. Etc.
Who the hell still uses IRC? Just use Discord like the rest of the world.
>>102
Don't you mean zoom?
So why communism, even in its toy IRC form, always evolves to that? I.e. GNUtcases were dissatisfied with EFnet, because they didn't had the total control there.
I got global ban at Discord after calling to nuke Russia and China. They believe advocacting for a nuclear war is a "hate speech"
>>95
Imagine trolling on IRC and being surprised that you're banned.
I dislike his opinion on our cult leader, so he is a troll. Gulag him immediately!
Ok, commie.
Big corporations sponsor FSF then this is an understandable stance as what I am proposing would hurt their bottom line. Current situation saves them huge amounts of money from spending on R&D because developers all over the world will develop something for free (believing the PR around open source) and then if something catches on, big corporation can use it of appropriate it if you will. Sometimes developers from within those companies feel bad and then ask the corporation if they could contribute something. This is then again is turned into PR piece saying that you see we give back! Best outcome for the original authors is getting hired on mediocre salary at one of those corporations or having a cool entry in CV. I think you are missing the point and my idea does not contradict user freedom as users will continue to use it for free.
Russia now requires all smartphones and devices in the country to have Russian software preinstalled
Surprisingly we won't see Snowden, Assange, Chomsky and Stallman protesting that on RussiaToday.
>>109
What do you mean surprisingly? Of course RT won't engage in russia-critical news.
What you want to find is Snowden, Assange, Chomsky or Stallman approving of these measures, to prove whatever point you're trying to make.
What you want to find is Snowden, Assange, Chomsky or Stallman approving of these measures, to prove whatever point you're trying to make.
Their selective silence is the approval.
communism
commie
=> >>65
does not contradict user freedom as users will continue to use it for free
Stallman protesting that
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html
Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users; that is the basic injustice. The developers and manufacturers often exercise that power to the detriment of the users they ought to serve.
This typically takes the form of malicious functionalities.
Nearly all mobile phones do two grievous wrongs to their users: tracking their movements, and listening to their conversations. This is why we call them “Stalin's dream”.
If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't here, please write to <webmasters@gnu.org> to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two to serve as specific substantiation.
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Microsoft = bad, Gazprom = good.
Ok.
An open letter in support of RMS.
Joshua Moon (Kiwi Farms)
Funny how Moon always bitches about the deplatforming of the Russian shills, while I personally got banned from Moon's Kiwi Farms after my first post questioning their affiliation. Why some free speech is more free than other, and they will always ban you for inconvenient questions?
Gazprom = good.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#7_September_2020_(Navalny_poisoning)
*Navalny poisoning forces Merkel's party to ask: how do we hit back at Putin?* Here's a suggestion: switch to renewable energy as fast as possible. It's vitally necessary anyway, and it will eliminate demand for Russia's key exports (fossil fuels). >>57
American corporations
paying taxes >>94
55 US Corporate Giants Paid $0 in Federal Taxes in 2020 Thanks to 'Gaping' Loopholes
"If you paid $120 for a pair of Nike Air Force 1 shoes, you paid more to Nike than it paid in federal income taxes over the past 3 years," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
free speech
=> >>99
Monopolistic corporations fund GPL projects in part to prevent the potential competitors from gaining any market share and gather resources to defeat their monopoly. Compared to BSD and/or Public Domain, there is no incentive and resources to develop GPL software into something competing with the monopolies. The only thing Microsoft is really afraid of is non-copyleft licenses. Remember: Apple OSX and iOS were built on top of FreeBSD. Without it, there would be no Apple today, only Microsoft. That is also why monopolists keep open source developers on a short leash - it would be far worse, if they break free, creating competition, forcing to buy them at a much higher price.
FSF killed countless smaller companies, like BeOS, Symbolics, Sun and Silicon Graphics with its workstations. Partially by alienating the community towards the proprietary Unix and Lisp systems. And these were real competitors for Microsoft, developing innovative solutions. I.e. BeOS was written completely in C++.
If you want real freedom, then the only way is boycotting FSF, Stallman and the rest of copyleft slave drivers.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
Is this the schizo thread?
proprietary software makes frogs gay.
>>120
Freedom Five: earning BTC for being a RussiaToday mouthpiece.
Ричард Столлман в Москве 27.08.2019 (Richard Matthew Stallman in Moscow):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCh8EcBrptA
RussiaToday mouthpiece
=> >>57
Is this the schizo thread?
https://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1596796049
I can take any political views, even contradictory, when it suits me. I.e. if Trump pays me a million USD to promote racism, I will be promoting racism, and if Hilary pays me million USD to speak against racism, I will be speaking against racism.
For now I just hope that Americans will start killing each other in a civil war, so America will become less full and I could immigrate there. America actually needs a bloodshed.
I.e. today I support both sides of the conflict, cheering for every American death.
My argument is: pay me money and I will follow the party line. Otherwise I will be false flagging from the both sides, writing nasty things. Nostrovia!
So I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I just hate Americans.
> But no one gives any credence to someone with fluid and contradictory stances, so your false-flagging won't be anywhere near as efficient as it might be if you had credibility. That means that you are destroying the efficiency of your chosen tool, regardless of whether that tool choice makes any sense to begin with.
Not everyone is as smart as you. We are talking about the complete drooling American right wingers. These creatures have less intelligence than a retarded hamster. So why bothering puting in any effort, if most alt-rights get triggered?
Russians are threatening the world peace. What do we do?! No! Don't use the superior NATO firepower to seize the hydrocarbons from these Mongols! Libyan scenario is not an option! Instead West must switch to the wind turbines and play hippie music!
Ok, Ivan.
>Russians are threatening the world peace.
all me tbh
The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.
I hate the fact that every few months some looney comes by this board and spams it all up with badly formatted nonsense, and we all have to wait until he gets bored and moves on.
>>130
You are now entering the real internet, leave while you still can.
Bill Gates got so powerful that he doesn't care if you die from sucking his balls so hard. He is now using the power he obtained from Bill Gates balls suckers like you to fuck this world into a Bill Gates balls sucking society.
http://serenityos.org/
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
It is free as in BSD 2-clause license.
Unix core, Windows NT GUI.
Implying Leah Rowe has any balls at all!
http://archive.fo/5a3Ka
The Russian people didn’t have a lot. Because they weren’t greedy. They didn’t have 20 different brands of cereal. They made their own videogames (the Dendy, which was their version of the Nintendo)… they made Tetris for god sake. But they didn’t have frivilous fancy junk. By capitalist standards, they were poor. But their life expectancy was higher than in the west, homelessness and unemployment was virtually non-existent, and they had the finest universities in the world.
What they had, everyone had. It was a collective society, built by the people for the people.
They beat the United States into space.
And they invented Tetris.
Type m-x-tetris into GNU Emacs. I dare you.
>>130
Great, now we have MikeeUSA too.
>>136
Got a fucking problem. I can gaurentee I do more programming than you. Also more music composition. More 3d modeling. More texture design. More map architecture.
Thought "textboard.com" was some hidden thing.
Was never on the perl /prog/ textboard.
MikeeUSA developed more free video games than thou had girlfriends.
one word: CROSSFIRE
Best FOSS MMORPG ever written
>>139
That's not hard to achieve.
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
Microsoft: DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS...
FSF: PEDOPHILES, PEDOPHILES, PEDOPHILES...
I don't know why Stallman gets called a pedophile just for trying to argue precisely When Bill Gates was actually socialized with Epistine.
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#8_April_2021_(Stallman_support)
Supporting Stallman against a campaign of hatred
>>145
Because Bill Gates has a PR department with endless money while the FSF does not.
Get yourself an inflatable underage Stallman doll already, pedo.
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
Here is Gosling Emacs where he himself says Stallman is one of the original authors of TECO the spiritual father of all the Emacs-like editors. Who started this thread is full of shit.
>>149
I doubt this will please anyone. I am already seeing people claim that this is insincere and was only written so that he can hold onto his position. They don't want him to apologize or change, they want him to disappear.
He can do some good work on GNU Hurd. But I'm afraid the last time he did actual programming was when he worked on his diploma project, and even then he was helped by the MIT AI labs staff. The retard struggles to write a factorial.
GIMP? More liek PIMP!
>>151
What RMS's apology should have been, with annotations
(Instead of):
https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/g/thread/81160224/
>>81160224
"Some have described my co-ethnic Dr Jeffery Epstein as a paedophile. In their minds he preyed upon the types of little girls you see in your anime cartoons. Let us not debate if this was true or not. The fact is that if it were true then Dr Epstein's fault was that he did not indeed collect the little girls in permanent tribute to himself, and he did not indeed pay the proper bride price to their fathers (50 shecks of silver); as our G-d, and the only g-d, has set forth as the procedure in Devarim chapter 22 verse 28."
Instead we get:
Some have described me as being "tone-deaf," and that is fair. With my difficulty in understanding social cues, that tends to happen. For instance, I defended Professor Minsky on an M.I.T. mailing list after someone leaped to the conclusion that he was just as guilty as Jeffrey Epstein. To my surprise, some thought my message defended Epstein. As I had stated previously, Epstein is a serial rapist, and rapists should be punished. I wish for his victims and those harmed by him to receive justice.
"The true facts are that my fellow Dr. , Sir Epstein, simply had relations with allready-broken-in shiska whores (but I repeat myself), [(If anything it should be their "boy friends" (what the cattle call those who are actually, if we follow the Torah; their husbands: having deflowered them initially) who should be angry)], who were well above the age of niddah; and could not fully and properly be described as na'ar. They were women."
Instead we got:
False accusations -- real or imaginary, against me or against others -- especially anger me. I knew Minsky only distantly, but seeing him unjustly accused made me spring to his defense. I would have done it for anyone. Police brutality makes me angry, but when the cops lie about their victims afterwards, that false accusation is the ultimate outrage for me. I condemn racism and sexism, including their systemic forms, so when people say I don't, that hurts too.
"False accusations of paedophillia; that is: the taking of the flower of youth when that flower has already past; serve only to distract from the real injustice. The injustice of the degrdation and disregard of G-d's Law."
It was right for me to talk about the injustice to Minsky, but it was tone-deaf that I didn't acknowledge as context the injustice that Epstein did to women or the pain that caused.
"It was right for me to speak against this injustice: Our g-d: the only g-d: permits a man, such as my good and dear friend Minsky, to marry little female children: far younger than the filth he and Sir Dr Epstine were forced to degrade themselves with"
I've learned something from this about how to be kind to people who have been hurt. In the future, that will help me be kind to people in other situations, which is what I hope to do.
"The cattle will spare no expense and no effort in their idolotry and their aggressions against G-d's People. What wrong my benighted Epstine did was a present-occurance flowing from the denial of his true Rights: the denial of a sweet virginal child bride. All of his days until he died. "
"That was the tragedy."
Richard Stallman taught us that:
1. In America "you can get arrested without a reason."
2. Russian spy "Edward Snowden is a Great Hero."
3. HAMAS terrorists are the good guys, while Israel is a fascist state.
4. "The US military" are the "violent white supremacists." "The US owes reparations to Iraq for the damage it has done."
5. "The US military is poisoning [low-income] communities across the US with toxic chemicals."
6. It is wrong that "the US government has persecuted Julian Assange for a decade for Wikileaks' journalism."
7. "Publishing of leaked secret [American] information" is journalism, and not spying or sabotage.
8. Terrorist Iranian dictatorship, trying to make a nuclear bomb, are the good guys, and America should ally with it.
9. "US today — plutocracy, extractivism and dooH niboR."
10. "US government doesn't try to operate fair taxation."
11. American "democracy is a sham."
12. "We must defeat [American] plutocracy."
13 "War is not the way to deal with" the totalitarian regimes.
14. Pre-teen children can "appear entirely willing."
15. Writing software unpaid makes you "free as in freedom."
16. There is nothing wrong with the Red Star GNU/Linux being used in North Korea as the totalitarian surveillance tool tracking any non approved communication. GNU GPL completely approves such use, because it gives their government users "freedom."
17. "Facebook is surveillance monster."
18. American corporations are the "enemy of your freedom", despite them creating jobs, quality products and paying taxes.
19. It is totally okay to work for totalitarian regimes, speak propaganda on RussiaToday and getting paid in bitcoins by Karpeles.
20. Criticizing Stallman and his cult is a taboo, and will get you banned from all related IRC channels and forums.
21. RussiaToday and TheGuardian are the best and most unbiased sources of information.
https://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1618532756#reply_6
https://textboard.org/prog/250#t250p12
>>94
America >>96
corporations creating jobs >>98
paying taxes >>117
RussiaToday >>57
Criticizing >>99
I've spent some time with rms and found him humorous and a generally nice fellow, even as he was quite busy responding to emails on his laptop. I remember he in particular wanted to see our city's moat. At the time I believe he was in a long distance relationship, and he talked about how it's difficult. On the way back from a restaurant he stopped and marveled at the smell from a tree's flowers, asked if I knew the name of the tree, but I didn't. He never made me feel left out, and I saw him treat others decently. One woman in particular who came to meet up with us was almost fainting at seeing her hero. Even though he didn't seem to understand why she was nervous, he asked if she was alright, and she seemed calmer after that. The only things I have left from that day are the memories and his funny business card that I've saved.
Those attacking rms have no sense of decency and no solid basis for their misguided beliefs.
Richard Stallman taught us that:
1. In America "you can get arrested without a reason."
2. Russian spy "Edward Snowden is a Great Hero."
3. HAMAS terrorists are the good guys, while Israel is a fascist state.
4. "The US military" are the "violent white supremacists." "The US owes reparations to Iraq for the damage it has done."
5. "The US military is poisoning [low-income] communities across the US with toxic chemicals."
6. It is wrong that "the US government has persecuted Julian Assange for a decade for Wikileaks' journalism."
7. "Publishing of leaked secret [American] information" is journalism, and not spying or sabotage.
8. Terrorist Iranian dictatorship, trying to make a nuclear bomb, are the good guys, and America should ally with it.
9. "US today — plutocracy, extractivism and dooH niboR."
10. "US government doesn't try to operate fair taxation."
11. American "democracy is a sham."
12. "We must defeat [American] plutocracy."
13 "War is not the way to deal with" the totalitarian regimes.
14. Pre-teen children can "appear entirely willing."
15. Writing software unpaid makes you "free as in freedom."
16. There is nothing wrong with the Red Star GNU/Linux being used in North Korea as the totalitarian surveillance tool tracking any non approved communication. GNU GPL completely approves such use, because it gives their government users "freedom."
17. "Facebook is surveillance monster."
18. American corporations are the "enemy of your freedom", despite them creating jobs, quality products and paying taxes.
19. It is totally okay to work for totalitarian regimes, speak propaganda on RussiaToday and getting paid in bitcoins by Karpeles.
20. Criticizing Stallman and his cult is a taboo, and will get you banned from all related IRC channels and forums.
21. RussiaToday and TheGuardian are the best and most unbiased sources of information.
>>160
22."China is wise" for banning "Tesla cars from entering military bases."
14. Pre-teen children
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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#8_April_2021_(Stallman_support)
Supporting Stallman against a campaign of hatred
>>164
Crossposting with the goold old dis.tinychan is a terrible idea.
log off, Nikita
>>160
2. Snowden's revelations are definitely valuable in a world that relies much on US technology and services.
3. The conflict between Israel and Hamas is far from a white-black cliché.
4. > The US owes reparations to Iraq for the damage it has done
It does.
6. Just as in point number 2 (replace "Snowden" with "Assange").
7. Similar to the above.
8. Assuming that Iran indeed supports terrorism, do they do it to the same extent as Saudi Arabia (an ally of the US)?
12. Not just American - any plutocracy has to be defeated.
16. It is wrong, just there are not many ways to prevent misuse of software in general.
17. It is.
19. Hardly any connection between the former and the latter.
Also > quality products
Oh yeah, that legendary quality that gets lower everyday.
>>161
From the principle of maintaining their own military protected from outside interference it is a wise move, regardless of the details. I myself agree that PRC communists are putting together a nasty totalitarism, but that does not affect the former statement.
I used to be really enthusiastic about Tesla's projects, as I support replacing petrol-based engines with electric ones. However I just simply wanted a car powered be electricity instead of petrol, that, besides the details specific to electric vehicles, would otherwise operate exactly as if it was a normal car - meanwhile Tesla failed to deliver that.
>>168
Tesla is for ricing and waving your dick not utility.
