Richard Stallman responds to /g/

http://i.imgur.com/XVMgl.png

wow

EPIC OP XD

sage

so why is LISP the most powerful?

/prog/ should do something similar:

1. Is GC shit?

OH
MY
DOG

i came

I call bullshit -- I have an ATI card and no proprietary filth is required to run 3d on it.

Lisp is shit.

Dear Guido van Rossum.


1. What is your stance on garbage collection?

2. Did you mean Haskell?

3. Have you read your SICP today?

4. Which Touhou would you like to forcibly indent, thread over?

5. What do you think about finitism?

>>8
THE JEWISH ANAL RAPE OF DOOM AWAITS.

Will smoking cannabis in 24 hour intervals aid my programming abilities?

1. How do you pronounce "cdr"?
2. Is GC shit?
3. Can you prove there are more people in a given anonymous message board than me, you, and your friend Gerry Sussman?
4. Is BBCode free software?
5. What do you think about Slackware?
6. Do you think Internet message boards are unscientific and ultimately destructive?

More to come...

Is he actually advocating the use of nVidia cards using nouveau firmware and driver?

>>9
1. I prefer reference counting -- machines today surely have enough cache memory to store the counters, and it's not like Python's bloated runtime, module system and loading of class members won't completely flush the cache, several times. Reference cycwhat? Next question please.

2. No. Haskell is a functional programming language, therefore I don't understand it even at a basic level.

3. Obviously not, I stopped reading it at the first occurrence of the word lambda. To be honest, I still don't know how Python's lambda actually works (I was drunk one night and I accepted a shady patch from some asshole; ever since then, I've been unable to remove it due to hordes of faggots threatening to stop using the language, wtf?!).

4. What's a Touhou?

5. I think it's a great idea. Computers have limited resources and we can't afford mathematicians using "infinite lists" or things like that. Hell, even the universe has a finite amount of atoms.

>>13
see
>>7

Apparently the moron who wrote the fake email response didn't bother much with facts.

Guy has been spamming this on /g/ for days now. If you have ever emailed rms, you can tell this isn't him.

The OP also refused to post the full email header and it wasn't signed.

Fucking love RMS.

>>14
OMG ITS GUIDO VAN ROSSUM!

>>17,18
Back to the image boards, please!

>>16
this guy is right. I emailed rms once and it had none of that crap at the bottom (FSF address &c). I also a really strange auto-reply-bot message beforehand.


_{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 day reading that batch of mail and will come across your
message at some point. If I write a response immediately, it will go out in
the next outgoing batch--typically around 24 hours after I collected your
message, but occasionally sooner or later than that. Please expect a minimum
delay of between 24 and 48 hours in receiving a response to your mail to me.
 
If your message is hard to understand or responding takes real work,
the response could take longer.
 
So please wait 48 hours after sending a message before you resend it,
remind me about it, or ask if I have received it. If it has been less
than 48 hours, the absence of a response from me only means you have not
given me time to answer.
 
If you are having a conversation with me, please keep in mind that each
message you receive from me is a response to the mail you sent 24 to 48 hours
earlier, and when writing it, I probably had not yet downloaded your later
mail.
 
 
If you are in big hurry to speak with me, and one day's delay would be
a serious problem, you can ask my FSF assistant to phone me. Send mail to
<rms-assist@fsf.org> saying what you would like to talk with me about,
and giving your telephone number. You can also call the Free Software
Foundation office at 617-542-5942 (weekday Boston business hours) and
ask them to phone me on your behalf. If it's really important, try both!
 
An intermediate measure is to email me your phone number and ask me
to phone you.
 
But if there isn't enough hurry to warrant phoning me, please don't bother
the FSF people. The mail you already sent me will reach me before any mail
they could send me now on your behalf. I will respond as soon as I can.
 
If you do not wish to receive this message ever again, please send a message
to rms-autoreply-control@gnu.org with the subject "OFF".
Otherwise, you might receive a reply like this one up to once a month.}

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>12
I think that Slackware has a few non-free elements, but he should like it . After all, it's not only the oldest Linux distribution, but the only one entirely written in LISP.

Oh god /prog/ is broken. The main page doesn't update and the post confirmation screen is blank

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,15
I call bullshit -- I have an ATI card and no proprietary filth is required to run 3d on it.
RMS is no fan of ATI. Have you not seen the pictures of him from a few months back protesting outside their headquarters with that "Enemy of your freedom" sign? I think it's plausible he would reply in this manner.

>>16
Someone has been taking the picture and spammin it. I saw the original thread, and headers were supplied. They checked out. Yes, I know that is easy to fake, but I bet the guy didn't expect anyone to call him on it, and he supplied them remarkably quickly.

>>20
this guy is right. I emailed rms once and it had none of that crap at the bottom (FSF address &c). I also a really strange auto-reply-bot message beforehand.

Again, I saw the original thread, and he posted that automated reply as well, and showed a screencap of his inbox with it. Apparently he had posted that a few days earlier, before RMS actually replied, as some people in the thread recalled waiting for the answer. Yes, I know that could be him same-personing but whatever Also, as for the stuff at the bottom...I can believe RMS could possibly change his sig.

Plus, the comment about not using Intel or AMD sounds like him, he uses some weird open spec laptop.

Also, if you read about his answer to the TOR question, he has many similar responses about that issue on his website.

In short, I think it's plausible that it could actually have been him, and if not, it's exactly what he would say anyway.

>>7,15
I call bullshit -- I have an ATI card and no proprietary filth is required to run 3d on it.
RMS is no fan of ATI. Have you not seen the pictures of him from a few months back protesting outside their headquarters with that "Enemy of your freedom" sign? I think it's plausible he would reply in this manner.

>>16
Someone has been taking the picture and spammin it. I saw the original thread, and headers were supplied. They checked out. Yes, I know that is easy to fake, but I bet the guy didn't expect anyone to call him on it, and he supplied them remarkably quickly.

>>20
this guy is right. I emailed rms once and it had none of that crap at the bottom (FSF address &c). I also a really strange auto-reply-bot message beforehand.

Again, I saw the original thread, and he posted that automated reply as well, and showed a screencap of his inbox with it. Apparently he had posted that a few days earlier, before RMS actually replied, as some people in the thread recalled waiting for the answer. Yes, I know that could be him same-personing but whatever Also, as for the stuff at the bottom...I can believe RMS could possibly change his sig.

Plus, the comment about not using Intel or AMD sounds like him, he uses some weird open spec laptop.

Also, if you read about his answer to the TOR question, he has many similar responses about that issue on his website.

In short, I think it's plausible that it could actually have been him, and if not, it's exactly what he would say anyway.

>>7,15
I call bullshit -- I have an ATI card and no proprietary filth is required to run 3d on it.
RMS is no fan of ATI. Have you not seen the pictures of him from a few months back protesting outside their headquarters with that "Enemy of your freedom" sign? I think it's plausible he would reply in this manner.

>>16
Someone has been taking the picture and spammin it. I saw the original thread, and headers were supplied. They checked out. Yes, I know that is easy to fake, but I bet the guy didn't expect anyone to call him on it, and he supplied them remarkably quickly.

>>20
this guy is right. I emailed rms once and it had none of that crap at the bottom (FSF address &c). I also a really strange auto-reply-bot message beforehand.

Again, I saw the original thread, and he posted that automated reply as well, and showed a screencap of his inbox with it. Apparently he had posted that a few days earlier, before RMS actually replied, as some people in the thread recalled waiting for the answer. Yes, I know that could be him same-personing but whatever Also, as for the stuff at the bottom...I can believe RMS could possibly change his sig.

Plus, the comment about not using Intel or AMD sounds like him, he uses some weird open spec laptop.

Also, if you read about his answer to the TOR question, he has many similar responses about that issue on his website.

In short, I think it's plausible that it could actually have been him, and if not, it's exactly what he would say anyway.

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

>>7,15
I call bullshit -- I have an ATI card and no proprietary filth is required to run 3d on it.
RMS is no fan of ATI. Have you not seen the pictures of him from a few months back protesting outside their headquarters with that "Enemy of your freedom" sign? I think it's plausible he would reply in this manner.

>>16
Someone has been taking the picture and spammin it. I saw the original thread, and headers were supplied. They checked out. Yes, I know that is easy to fake, but I bet the guy didn't expect anyone to call him on it, and he supplied them remarkably quickly.

>>20
this guy is right. I emailed rms once and it had none of that crap at the bottom (FSF address &c). I also a really strange auto-reply-bot message beforehand.

Again, I saw the original thread, and he posted that automated reply as well, and showed a screencap of his inbox with it. Apparently he had posted that a few days earlier, before RMS actually replied, as some people in the thread recalled waiting for the answer. Yes, I know that could be him same-personing but whatever Also, as for the stuff at the bottom...I can believe RMS could possibly change his sig.

Plus, the comment about not using Intel or AMD sounds like him, he uses some weird open spec laptop.

Also, if you read about his answer to the TOR question, he has many similar responses about that issue on his website.

In short, I think it's plausible that it could actually have been him, and if not, it's exactly what he would say anyway.

>>7,13
http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg/image_view_fullscreen
Quite idiotic TBH since I'd say ATI has always been more friendly than nVidia (releasing specs and helping the OSS driver team so on, while the only thing nV does is releasing binary blobs).

Oh, shut up!

Oh god damn it. world4ch breaks (surprise surprise) and now /prog/ is almost unreadable.

>>39
@astrange_e on twitter, MVB on SynIRC and Rizon.