I just sent this email to Stallman

You may remember being told to go to a board on a site called 4chan, the technology board. Your response to it was "I tried to read that page, but I only saw inane comments". This, is definitely true. It has become a bit of a lightning rod for fools. However, there is a little used part of the website that is a text only board, in the fashion of old BBS's, kind of. No one ever goes there, apart from...who has found it and goes there. It's the programming board.
The difference between this board and the inane imageboard you tried to read is that 1) it is not populated by people who are (generally) fools. The second attribute of it is that threads do not 404 within a day. I know you browse the web via some kind of wget setup, so if there was a question/answer thread there, you would actually be able to reply. People there are not the instant gratification types that would not appreciate waiting for an answer from you.
I'm not entirely sure why, but they have some kind of adoration for Gerald Sussman, and have had contact with him before. He lectured them on the cult of personality, and not to put him on a pedastal, which is great really.
I personally would dearly love it if you would agree to look at a thread of questions and maybe answer the ones you feel like. I know you are very busy, but if you don't ask you don't get. If you are OK with this, would you please let me know and I will send you the link to the thread.
Yours, respectfully, <redacted>.

Rms on Jobs


06 October 2011 (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.