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Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by jsprogrammer »

tzaman wrote: post #34

This website a good example what's wrong with a lot of open source software (and don't get me wrong, I love FOSS, in fact, I make a living out of it). Complete ignorance of form. There's plenty of awesome function and amazing minds behind it, but humans are visual beings and sites like this (completely unscannable) make it really difficult to separate what's important and what's not. The only reason to visit a site l…

>Apple and Tesla understand that.

Do you have some reason to believe that? My frustrations with Apple hardware began and ended with their single button mouse. Tesla's cars are having their firmware modified without their riders fully understanding the implications of the modifications, resulting in entirely preventable, physical accidents.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by sdegutis »

jnpatel wrote: post #30
jnpatel wrote: post #25

I remember I once sent sent RMS a short message about a small bug on his website. He responded within 4 hours. > Small typo on line 724 of the source of your homepage... > I believe you meant "that is NOT an excuse to carry out the promise" Thanks, I fixed it. Would you like to join the FSF, perhaps?

It's also worth mentioning, that this was his autoreply :) I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system. After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much of the following da…

I've had several long correspondences with RMS over email. He's surprisingly humble and down to earth for someone with that level of fame. The first time I emailed him and he responded, I was very pleasantly surprised. In general he's very nice. He does take everything incredibly seriously though. And I do mean every single thing that goes through his brain. His website and his email reply kind of hint at that. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, it's just very unusual. And I think that's off-putting to a lot of people.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by Pica_soO »

sdegutis wrote: post #42
jnpatel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also worth mentioning, that this was his autoreply :) I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system. After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much of the following da…

I've had several long correspondences with RMS over email. He's surprisingly humble and down to earth for someone with that level of fame. The first time I emailed him and he responded, I was very pleasantly surprised. In general he's very nice. He does take everything incredibly seriously though. And I do mean every single thing that goes through his brain. His website and his email reply kind of hint at that. I don…

Every sentence you form is a contract, every fantasized aloud common endeavor uttered a promise. The problem is, that he is a contrast to most of us who - for having a family and a live style "sell out". He is what we could have been if we would have stayed true to the ideals of our youth. That's what put people off.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by astrodust »

kkennis wrote: post #31

This is some kind of art https://www.stallman.org/photos/rms-working/index.html

Reminds me of that old series of photos of a kid's travels around the world with his Gameboy and in every single shot he's either playing it or holding it. Oh, look, a famous monument!

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by digi_owl »

Pica_soO wrote: post #45
sdegutis wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had several long correspondences with RMS over email. He's surprisingly humble and down to earth for someone with that level of fame. The first time I emailed him and he responded, I was very pleasantly surprised. In general he's very nice. He does take everything incredibly seriously though. And I do mean every single thing that goes through his brain. His website and his email reply kind of hint at that. I don…

Every sentence you form is a contract, every fantasized aloud common endeavor uttered a promise. The problem is, that he is a contrast to most of us who - for having a family and a live style "sell out". He is what we could have been if we would have stayed true to the ideals of our youth. That's what put people off.

Do wonder if the ancient greeks had similar reactions to their philosophers.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by dTal »

mimo777 wrote: post #4

Reading _about_ Richard Stallman is much more fun than reading Richard Stallman.

Oh I dunno... "Stallman Does Dallas" made me giggle, and the time he ranted about a baby announcement on the GNU mailing list was (perhaps somewhat unintentionally) hilarious.

https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

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Post by jcvernaleo »

gexcolo wrote: post #21
simonswords82 wrote: post #16

The source code is very straightforward too. Commented out sections of the website with dated reminders to uncomment them. I guess he must look at his source code frequently enough that these reminders work? Very simple but effective mechanical turk I guess? e.g. It's the Grav-Mass season! Grav-Mass is the celebration of physical laws. December 25 Isaac Newton's birthday. ¡Feliz Gravidad! -->

If memory serves me correctly, RMS doesn't actually manage his own website. He has a number of volunteers that help update the website and post political notes. Those notes are likely a message from him to his volunteers, or the volunteers reminding themselves.

RMS does edit things sometimes but most of the editing comes from the volunteers. That particular note is both for and by me.
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