The Open Firmware song is better, because the recording of it is by people who can sing.
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Anonymous2005-10-09 3:43
He's still alive, so "was" is a bit incorrect. Anyway, in a word, yes. Some of his ideas, mainly those regarding software, aren't bad, but he, personally, is a few marbles short of a game.
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Anonymous2005-10-09 20:28
Freedom is what Richard Stallman says it is.
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Anonymous2005-10-10 8:04
>>5
Because RMS forces all programmers to use his license? Get real.
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Anonymous2005-10-10 9:59
Yes, because the only way for free software to be free is by using Richard Stallman's license. Anything else is shit. Even if it's actually less restrictive, it's still shit, because Richard Stallman dictates what's free.
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Anonymous2005-10-10 20:25
>>7 that's a myth; Stallman has actually recommended other licenses for things such as the ogg vorbis libaries; this is not to mention that Stallman (through the FSF) actually endorses the BSD license as a 'free license'.
Stallman bashing is for mindless slashfags ("STALLMAN MROE LEIK STALLIN OMG +5 INCITEFUL!!!"). So he's done more than you will even if you live 8 lifetimes; so has ESR, so has Bill Joy, so has Bill Gates.
Get over it.
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Anonymous2005-10-11 0:50
>>8 ". . . so has ESR, so has Bill Joy, so has Bill Gates. "
is that you Eric? go back to /b/
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Anonymous2005-10-11 5:36
All Gates has done is cause BASIC to live a far longer life than it deserves. Friggin autistics shouldn't be allowed to start billion dollar companies and become the richest men in the worlds...
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Anonymous2005-10-11 6:30
Gates hasn't caused BASIC to live so long. All the programmers who still *use* it are responsible.
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Anonymous2005-10-11 8:19
>>8
Lol Stallin
I didn't know some of these facts though.
>>10
I doubt he could be where he is being autistic. Admittedly, he did do some stuff, even if some may question his morals or products. And without Windows, by this time Unices would pretty much be an OS monopoly on the world's most used architecture, which I hope you'll agree is a bad thing.
>>11
Seriously, I like Microsoft's visual tools for GUI development, but man, I could use Visual anything but Basic. (Or shell :) )
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Anonymous2005-10-11 17:15
>>12
Nah Unix companies would have mismarketed themselves out of existence somehow. They're pretty good at it.
>>15
Did he? Lol open sauce drama, please post transcript or vid
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Illuminatus2005-10-13 16:40 (sage)
Stallman has a big ego, just like ESR.
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Anonymous2005-10-14 16:27
>>18
But RMS can justify it since he has actually earned the respect of his peers. ESR just sets himself up for continual mockery.
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Anonymous2005-10-14 17:27
>>19 both are pompous jackasses who haven't done shit other than talk a lot of crap. linus torvalds wins for writing an operating system (and not being a jack ass too)!
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Anonymous2005-10-14 18:22
>>20
Linus wrote an os kernel. Besides, he too is a jackass.
Stallman, on the other hand, is responsible for a REAL os. You may have heard of it, it's called emacs.
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Anonymous2005-10-15 1:14
>>20
As >>21 said Linus wrote the kernel. Stallman is responsible for GNU, which is an entire OS without the kernel. Also if you ever read the kernel mailing lists, Linus can be a little bitch too.
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Anonymous2005-10-15 7:30
>>21
If only he'd known how to make a decent editor for it, I'd be using emacs.
ESR has done fuck all useful, unlike RMS and Bill Gates who have.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 17:06
ESR sucks sure he has worked on open sauce but he just get dropped to commercial software, he's an asshole, and he likes CLOSED SOURCE software, which means it's PROPIETARY software.