Careercow Richard Stallman / rms - Dirty old communist hobo who eats his own footskin. HURD release: Never. Parrot sex: Imminent.

He hasn't coded since the early 90s and I doubt his coding skills is worth shit these days. Besides he'd be a fucking pain to work with, as every code in everything has to be free or else he won't use it.
Right - he could get up to speed on modern languages and choose to work in the environment that exists, he's obviously intellectually capable of doing so, but he refuses to do it because he's going to defend to the death his value system that says he's not allowed to do those things, despite the fact that his value system is completely retarded.
 
Right - he could get up to speed on modern languages and choose to work in the environment that exists, he's obviously intellectually capable of doing so, but he refuses to do it because he's going to defend to the death his value system that says he's not allowed to do those things, despite the fact that his value system is completely retarded.
I think the only modern programming technology that does adhere to his narrow world and political views (he hates Open Source as he argues its not Free Software) is programming his Smart TV to record repeats of The IT Crowd.
 
RMS is a weirdo but unlike most of the other tech "innovators" that are endlessly praised in the media, his influence on computing has been largely positive. While you may think that he is an extremist, he is principled in his beliefs and is a necessary opposing voice to the way technology is heading.
 
Right - he could get up to speed on modern languages and choose to work in the environment that exists,
You can still find jobs for fucking COBOL.
I don't know where that belief comes from that programming skills quickly become outdated.
That only happens when you're a webshit that throws together some crap in the latest meme framework and are unable to actually program something without SO telling you how.

rms knows C and LISP which are still used a lot.
 
RMS is a weirdo but unlike most of the other tech "innovators" that are endlessly praised in the media, his influence on computing has been largely positive. While you may think that he is an extremist, he is principled in his beliefs and is a necessary opposing voice to the way technology is heading.
Personally I enjoy the unparalleled ability to innovate at the speed of business provided by the productivity enhancement tools of Microsoft Office, licensed for the Windows 10 Operating System, but to each his own.
 
You can still find jobs for fucking COBOL.
I don't know where that belief comes from that programming skills quickly become outdated.
That only happens when you're a webshit that throws together some crap in the latest meme framework and are unable to actually program something without SO telling you how.

rms knows C and LISP which are still used a lot.
Pretty much correct about COBOL, Lisp and C. Lots of companies - including a lot of financial, legal and government institutions - rely on ancient bespoke software that they have never migrated from. Many don't think the change is worth the cost, and others find its near impossible to transfer the data over due to the changes in file formats and disc formats over the decades.

However because its non-Free Software, Richard would probably on his first day walk in with a pint of beer and give a lecture on how its unethical to keep running that software.
 
On one hand the guy did a lot of important work that fundamentally changed the world. On the other hand he's a foul, disagreeable, unhygienic, incel autist who likes to opine about weird sex shit on the office mailing list.

Makes sense that he had to go from MIT. Huge liability. But maybe let the old man remain on the board of his little fan club.

RMS is a weirdo but unlike most of the other tech "innovators" that are endlessly praised in the media, his influence on computing has been largely positive. While you may think that he is an extremist, he is principled in his beliefs and is a necessary opposing voice to the way technology is heading.
His principles are totally impractical but I have to admire the guy for always sticking with them.
 
Right - he could get up to speed on modern languages and choose to work in the environment that exists, he's obviously intellectually capable of doing so, but he refuses to do it because he's going to defend to the death his value system that says he's not allowed to do those things, despite the fact that his value system is completely retarded.
Ya RMS wouldn't be able to do much in modern tech.
He computes like its 1988 with a VT100 terminal. I don't agree with a lot of what he says but I respect that he has never compromised or sold out his supporters.
 
I think you're right @Carver, this could be big. There's a lot of big names in FOSS throwing their (soy-filled) weight around over this. RMS is rattling a lot of cages looking for parrots probably.
It's gonna get spicy if RMS decides he has to publicly respond. Today was a bloodbath (as you quoted). A lot of smaller orgs also pulling their support, a letter with well past 1500 signers demanding his stepping down, and even FSF Europe and the EFF getting pissy (see below)

RMS is a weirdo but unlike most of the other tech "innovators" that are endlessly praised in the media, his influence on computing has been largely positive. While you may think that he is an extremist, he is principled in his beliefs and is a necessary opposing voice to the way technology is heading.
Very arguable how influential he was past the 90s. I don't think his positions on software/libre/etc are bad, but his job is to be a spokesperson and leader for the Free Software Foundation, and I doubt part of that job responsibility is "causing waves of RQs and disassociations"


And the EFF is pissed (a) too :
We at EFF are profoundly disappointed to hear of the re-election of Richard Stallman to a leadership position at the Free Software Foundation, after a series of serious accusations of misconduct led to his resignation as president and board member of the FSF in 2019. We are also disappointed that this was done despite no discernible steps taken by him to be accountable for, much less make amends for, his past actions or those who have been harmed by them. Finally, we are also disturbed by the secretive process of his re-election, and how it was belatedly conveyed to FSF’s staff and supporters.


Stallman’s re-election sends a wrong and hurtful message to free software movement, as well as those who have left that movement because of Stallman’s previous behavior.
 
I mean, it's not really even about Stallman for me. Yeah, he's probably past the point of usefulness, but that in itself is the problem. This is just one more step in the discipline of programming shifting from wildly talented and passionate autists to corporate funded genderspecials and street shitters.

I wonder. When the planes start falling out of the sky, will they even realize the connection?
 
Dude is nuts no doubt but he is also one of the most important figures in the history of tech and open source software wouldn't be where it is without him without his principles and founding of FSF a lot of software and the backbone of the internet would be different and posibly inefficient without him. This scandal will be fun to watch but really he is just another crazy dude in tech.
 
It's gonna get spicy if RMS decides he has to publicly respond. Today was a bloodbath (as you quoted). A lot of smaller orgs also pulling their support, a letter with well past 1500 signers demanding his stepping down, and even FSF Europe and the EFF getting pissy (see below)


Very arguable how influential he was past the 90s. I don't think his positions on software/libre/etc are bad, but his job is to be a spokesperson and leader for the Free Software Foundation, and I doubt part of that job responsibility is "causing waves of RQs and disassociations"


And the EFF is pissed (a) too :

Calyx Institute, TOR Project and OBS have signed onto the open letter as well.

Fuck them all.

Shit, Bryan Lunduke is a bit of a lolcow himself, but he's well spoken. He goes into his own stories about how nutty these people are when it comes to trying to cancel his sponsors, and lying about his politics & actions.

Frankly, I agree with him on a lot of this particular subject.

 
I'm honestly not gonna listen to a 37-minute recording that should have been an article, and I'm obviously more skeptical of the whole free software thing than some people in this thread, but it seems to me that if Stallman's job is to be an advocate who changes people's minds about things, then he's remarkably bad at it. He's always been an absolutely impossible person to work with and done all sorts of offputting things even before the sexual harassment blowup. His hygiene, his lack of interest in appealing to anyone who isn't a stereotypical nerd out of an 80s movie, his insistence on tying together his software crusade to 100 other external political issues, etc etc. Combined with that, it seems like the only reason that the Linux products that are out there caught on is because people eventually made them actually work, which he also had almost nothing to do with - sure, many Linux OSes have some GNU code that he worked on in the Reagan administration in them, but that was around for 20 years going nowhere before a tremendous amount of work from people who would rather Stallman dropped dead actually made the system viable for the way it's used in real products by anyone outside of the recreational programming community. There's a lot of praise for Stallman here as somehow succeeding or contributing to the success of the things he advocates when it seems like he's been a tremendous net negative or irrelevant to them for some time.

Bill Gates is eliminating malaria and if you met him in a bar he could talk to you about something other than computers and politics for an hour. Stallman should consider the fact that he's WAY less personally appealing than that guy despite 35 years in a self-created PR position.
 
I love how all these trannies out for blood completely ignore the fact that Stallman is clearly autistic, which might have a wee something to do with his social ineptitude, hygiene, and what they see as stubbornness. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a case of him being malicious, Just fucking weird, awkward, and with odd points of view.

>Ree don't discriminate against autists, empower them instead
>Ree make this empowered autist fuck off

I find it pretty funny, if a little sad, tbh.
 
I love how all these trannies out for blood completely ignore the fact that Stallman is clearly autistic, which might have a wee something to do with his social ineptitude, hygiene, and what they see as stubbornness. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a case of him being malicious, Just fucking weird, awkward, and with odd points of view.

>Ree don't discriminate against autists, empower them instead
>Ree make this empowered autist fuck off

I find it pretty funny, if a little sad, tbh.
Just wait until Stallmann troons out and blames everything on his 'tism and ZOMGZ DYSPHORIA!
 
Just wait until Stallmann troons out and blames everything on his 'tism and ZOMGZ DYSPHORIA!
That would be awesome.

It's absolutely clear that RMS is on the spectrum. He is no doubt highly functioning, but the problem he faces is that he has the strain of autism that gives him unshakable confidence and a very specialized type of narcissism coupled with absolutely zero social awareness. This was a workable combination in the 80s and 90s but a really dangerous thing now.

Perhaps some kind of gentlemen's agreement can be reached with the larger open source community where RMS can keep his board seat and is allowed to do things like comment on sex with underage girls and horses as long as he chops his penis off. I feel like that would be a win for everyone.
 
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