Richard Stallman on The Setup

#1

Post by mqt » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 8:27 AM UTC

Richard Stallman on The Setup
richard.stallman.usesthis.com

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by romland » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 8:49 AM UTC

accidentally touching the mouse-pad and moving the pointer, which would be a nuisance

Sheesh. One would hope he has better reasons than that for using console. It's not that hard to configure X to not switch window on mouse-over.

No offense RMS. :)

I didn't know about the yeeloong, though. Interesting device.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by strait » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 9:26 AM UTC

RMS is my favorite computing austerity artist.

The RMS Waltz: That's one, two, three internet connections. Now here's one Emacs (Gnus is not responding), two Emacs (dired and the tramp), three Emacs (at this time, Count von Count can be heard laughing in the background).

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by motters » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 9:27 AM UTC

It sounds as if he operates in batch mode with regard to communication.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 9:41 AM UTC

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#6

Post by andrewljohnson » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 9:53 AM UTC

Typical Stallman... taking everything to the extreme and suffering the consequences. It's the burden of the idealist.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 9:54 AM UTC

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Post by mtoledo » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 10:01 AM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #6

Typical Stallman... taking everything to the extreme and suffering the consequences. It's the burden of the idealist.

I admire his willingness to stand to what he believes.

Also, extremisms aside, he's contributed a lot to the community.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

#9

Post by admp » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 10:02 AM UTC

"This interview is available under the Attribution No Derivatives license."

Am I the only one who finds that ironic?

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by almost » Sat, Jan 23, 2010, 10:07 AM UTC

admp wrote: post #9

"This interview is available under the Attribution No Derivatives license." Am I the only one who finds that ironic?

Not especially, Stalman campaigns for free software and he has reasons why he thinks it's a very good idea. Those reasons don't really extend to interviews as far as I can see.