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

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Toe. Jam. Not milk.

 

[SIGSEGV]

The Open Source community has a notable man called Stallman. When he was young, he wanted to write his own software, but everything he wrote ended up becoming a notepad. Once upon a time, struggling with implementing the “onKey” event, he found a letter from a Finnish student who wanted to write his own OS. He wrote, in particular, “hello, I’m 17 and I wrote a bootloader, pls help me write the rest, my OS is almost ready. Linus from Finland”. Stallman responded: “Hello, my name is Richard Stallman, I’ve already written a notepad for Unix and I think I can help you write your own OS, young man” The first thing Richard did was to try write a kernel for Linus’ bootloader, which he called The hURD. Unfortunately, once again it ended up being a text editor. Linus was angry and then another person, called Cox, came and wrote the whole kernel. He was a very good British man who could not stand others feel bad. Stallman, seeing how his fame is being stolen by Cox, said: “I have already written many notepads for the Linux system, you cannot just delete it all”. Linux had to agree, due to their friendship, and left all the notepads inside the Linux. It was renamed to “the GNU’. To this day, even in 2015, we can enjoy the beauty of Stallman’s genius. For example, there’s a program which takes one file and renames it to another file. Also, there’s a program which deletes a file. Windows doesn’t have such things. Just imagine Linux without such software.

Stallman’s magnum opus is emacs. It’s one of his notepads where he put a scripting language into. Only a visioner is capable of writing a text editor and putting a scripting language there. Some may say it’s 1 grade students’ project, but they will be wrong, as Stallman didn’t put there Basic or Pascal — he’s put there Lisp. It’s a very powerful language, because it’s functional (Basic and Pascal are called dysfunctional). From what I understood reading Wikipedia, functional languages are very awesome because they’re very math. Only smartest people can code in them because it’s too math for common people. Basic is not enough math, C is not enough math, Lisp is a lot of math because it’s functional. So emacs has Lisp in it, so it’s a very good editor made by a innovator and a genius, who understands math and functions.

When he turned 62, Stallman got a bit tired of writing notepads, so he founded Free Software Foundation to promote his ideas. The foundation’s main idea is that you cannot use a program unless it’s written by Stallman himself. He believes that anything not written by Stallman is potentially a patent troll and a vendor lock-in, because there’re no guarantees to Stallman, and only Stallman gives guarantees to himself. And we again return to the topic of notepads, unfortunately. In a perfect world, there are not other programs, but notepads written by Richard Stallman. Preferably with LISPs inside (no less than 85% functional). Maybe Stallman is right, maybe he is wrong, I can’t tell for sure. What I know for sure is that he’s a visioner, an innovator, and we definitely should at least consider his opinion.

Dammit I was going to post this.

 

[haunted vagina]

BTW, he's functionally homeless, and it's basically his only paycheck.

He claims he has a private "residence" in Cambridge and no longer lives in an office on the MIT campus, though for some reason he got a new office when the CS department changed buildings even though he doesn't actually do any work for the university and the campus office is where he gets all of his mail etc. I'd say it's pretty likely that since he got kicked out of his fake position at MIT, he's living from host to host on his speaking tours and squatting in academic buildings when he's not on the road, unless he didn't really get removed.

Most college campuses are totally unsecured, and all it would take for him to squat in the office of a sympathetic professor overnight is one trip to Lowe's to duplicate a key - especially at MIT (where all campus activity is concentrated in a small number of enormous buildings and things tend to run on a 24-hour schedule due to being the most intense science/engineering program on Earth) no one would ever notice a random person going in and out of an academic building a few times a day. Someone who lives near Boston could probably scout this out if they wanted to.

Aside from that - Stallman could *easily* make six figures a year doing a GoFundMe type thing with his fanatic supporters, or get a decent job as a software developer, but he's pretty much the emblem of someone who is homeless by choice in order to prove an ideological point that only exists in his own head.

 

[D_Tractor]

No one has mentioned the most important thing about him: he's a Jew.

 

[Steverambo]

Soooo, he's just your typical Libertarian

 

[Nathan Higgers]

...or get a decent job as a software developer...

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.

 

[D_Tractor]

Soooo, he's just your typical Libertarian

He's a far left SJW.

 

[BingBong]

He's a far left SJW.

he's a left-wing libertarian

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Stallman is a John the Baptist style mad prophet. He's a sperg, an autist, a pain in the ass, and an overall nutjob... but pretty much every prediction he's ever made has come true.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

AFAIK Stallman's never touched a kid and is clearly actually crazy (and extremely intelligent), so as far as I'm concerned he's on par with Terry. I'd advocate changing the tag here to Schizocow to actually reflect his nature.

 

[The Grognard]

Much like every other Unixbeard, his powers are directly proportional to how scruffy and big his beard is.

 

[Pizdec]

he's a Jew.

So wait, how is he a Je-

every code in everything has to be free or else he won't use it.

Ahhhh there it is.

 

[HiramTheGrift]

he's a left-wing libertarian

He's a Monarcho-Socialist with himself reigning as monarch

 

[Kulee Baba]

Stallman is a John the Baptist style mad prophet. He's a sperg, an autist, a pain in the ass, and an overall nutjob... but pretty much every prediction he's ever made has come true.

Eh a decade ago your geek posters on Slashdot pretty much knew how the chips were going to fall. E.G Microsoft has been planning to transition Windows into a live service for years and years. It makes sense that users would trade in their privacy for products that were cheap and convenient.

Stallman deserves his props for his evangelism of Free Software. But I don't think he's some "Nostradamus" of computing.

 

[The Fool]

Stallman is a John the Baptist style mad prophet. He's a sperg, an autist, a pain in the ass, and an overall nutjob... but pretty much every prediction he's ever made has come true.

He threw a tantrum over people using Mono saying MS was going to patent troll it to death.

Now the .NET ecosystem is a mecca of open source software.

Here's the funny thing about Stallman, he is literally just an SJW. His entire shtick was to make software political because a company wouldn't share their driver. Could he have just asked Xerox to make some kind of notification system for their driver to say when it's jammed? Yeah. Did he do that? No, he threw a tantrum that they wouldn't share his software, stormed off, and then started demanding that everyone share the source code to everything they made because that's what made him happy.

This all stems from his young adult life at MIT. MIT to him is what High School was to OPL. It was his happy place, it was where he grew up. But then change happened, and autists can't stand change, so they grasp on to the past forever. Stallman's just trying to remake MIT by forcing the entire world to be open source by starting a fucking politically-charged software cult that wants to give more freedom to the software than the people who use it, through the machinery of the GPL.

It was always about politics, it was never about technical merit. Now he's getting cancelled. He asked for this.

 

[Null]

Stallman's just trying to remake MIT by forcing the entire world to be open source by starting a fucking politically-charged software cult that wants to give more freedom to the software than the people who use it, through the machinery of the GPL.

Software cannot be malicious, but rights holders can be. It's better to have software empowered via foundations like the FSF than it is to have software monopolized by globohomo.

 

[byuu]

Now the .NET ecosystem is a mecca of open source software.

That's ridiculous.
You can count the number of worthwhile mono projects with one hand.

 

[The Fool]

Software cannot be malicious, but rights holders can be. It's better to have software empowered via foundations like the FSF than it is to have software monopolized by globohomo.

I think it's just more about him wanting to create a community. I just think it's ironic that he has to mechanically enforce this community through a viral license because he doesn't seem to trust that his community will function by itself. He has this delusion that a company will just swoop in, take the code, make incredible modifications to it that will outshine what the developers did, and then everyone will start using that. Maybe that's happened once or twice, but I've never seen it occur.

 

[Null]

I think it's just more about him wanting to create a community. I just think it's ironic that he has to mechanically enforce this community through a viral license because he doesn't seem to trust that his community will function by itself. He has this delusion that a company will just swoop in, take the code, make incredible modifications to it that will outshine what the developers did, and then everyone will start using that. Maybe that's happened once or twice, but I've never seen it occur.

It's no secret that FOSS usually fucking sucks. This is because it's almost always developed by trannies, who are for whatever reason obsessed with it. I've heard claims that FOSS is a perfect incarnation of communistic redistribution. Maybe that's why.

A lot of FOSS works excellent but has no UX. A perfect example of this is youtube-dl. By default, youtube-dl is a command line executable which is great for downloading multimedia on basically all major (and many minor) websites hosting videos or audio. It's FOSS and I use it every single day. Problem is, command lines are inaccessible to normies and blacks. So there are actually a lot of commercial YouTube Downloader programs you have to pay a license for which have great user interfaces, but which are ultimately just wrappers using youtube-dl and giving normies a way to access it. What FOSS does exist and which does do its job and has a great UI is usually a corporate sponsored project.

Whatever personal faults RMS has, I am happy that his work drove him down the path it did instead of to speedrunning NES games on Twitch while wearing a wig.

 

[MediocreMilt]

What FOSS does exist and which does do its job and has a great UI is usually a corporate sponsored project.

They're mostly text editors, IDEs, and I guess the GNU calculator app mostly works.

As for Stallman himself though, troon saga when?