I feel like everyone's just too polite to say that Richard Stallman's just another programmer. What has he actually done? He's tried to attach himself to the coattails of Linux with his infamous "interjection," but his own Unix effort took 30 years and is mostly unused. What else? Emacs? Does the author of Notepad++ get worldwide recognition for his efforts?
I'm not saying the man's useless, just that there are people who do more for less recognition. Enough zealotry already.
'>Rimmus
>A programmer
Hahahaha, look at this clueless git.
RMS's more of a lawyer / politician than anything, since he spends all his time worrying about copyright law and lying like crazy.
>>6
Operating systems are sets of applications, therefore you must call Linux GNU/Linux don't bother crediting any of the other thousand projects that are used though.
Proof that if you keep repeating the same ludicrous things over and over people will eventually consider it to be the truth but I suppose that's how religion works anyways.
Also the fact that he calls his stuff free when the GPL is in fact all about placing arbitrary restrictions on code.
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Anonymous2013-08-17 17:03
>>7
e/g/in spoilers /g/ro! XDDDDDDDDDDDD le interjection face lelelel BEST MEME ON LE /G/ IS LE STALLMAN FACE FUCKIN/G/ UP/G/OATS /G/RO XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
>>7
Incorrect. The kernel and kernel program (drivers and shit) are called the operating system. With the user base programs, shell, and everything, it is called a software distribution. Because the kernel has no useful programs, and every one has their own idea of how what and how the user programs should be, we have well over 200+ flavours of Linux Distributions (Distros).
However you are correct, language changes constantly, especially when people keep repeating it incorrectly. Which is why the words like "bachelor," "awful," "basement," "hacker," et cetera have changed their meaning over time.
And GPL is just copyright with requirements, a license that acts like a contract with free service. Which is why there are other better licenses: FreeBSD, MIT, public domain (which is gone in the US)*
When Symbolics stopped sending over its source-code changes, Stallman responded by holing up in his MIT offices and rewriting each new software feature and tool from scratch. Frustrating as it may have been, it guaranteed that future Lisp Machine users had unfettered access to the same features as Symbolics users. It also guaranteed Stallman's legendary status within the hacker community. Already renowned for his work with Emacs, Stallman's ability to match the output of an entire team of Symbolics programmers-a team that included more than a few legendary hackers itself-still stands has one of the major human accomplishments of the Information Age, or of any age for that matter. Dubbing it a "master hack" and Stallman himself a "virtual John Henry of computer code," author Steven Levy notes that many of his Symbolics-employed rivals had no choice but to pay their idealistic former comrade grudging respect. Levy quotes Bill Gosper, a hacker who eventually went to work for Symbolics in the company's Palo Alto office, expressing amazement over Stallman's output during this period: "I can see something Stallman wrote, and I might decide it was bad (probably not, but somebody could convince me it was bad), and I would still say, 'But wait a minute-Stallman doesn't have anybody to argue with all night over there. He's working alone! It's incredible anyone could do this alone!'"
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Anonymous2013-08-17 22:41
>>25
This may surprise you, but I invented the ``This may surprise you, but I invented the ``This may surprise you, but I invented the _____ meme'' meme'' meme.
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Anonymous2013-08-17 22:43
>>27
I am OP. I take this as sufficient proof that I was mistaken. Thank you for letting me know about this.
I still think he's a bit of a grouser but now I basically have to go along with it.
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Anonymous2013-08-17 22:45
Didn't RMS wrote the first gcc version? Linus used gcc to compile his own kernel when he was working on it. I think it's enough to prove that GNU is important and without it, there might have been no Linux. It's 4:44 am where I live, please forgive my grammar.
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Anonymous2013-08-17 22:52
>>27
Much easier to copy than to create something new. >>30
If that is true it doesn't change the fact that C compilers existed before gcc. Linus probably would have just used a different one.
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Anonymous2013-08-17 22:55
>>30
I can forgive grammar but I can't forgive kids from /g/ making posts about distros and le interjection on /prog/.
>>31
Of course it's easier to copy. Why do you believe that RMS must make new things?
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Anonymous2013-08-18 14:00
>>1
Stallman haven't wrote Emacs. That is a misconception. Gosling did.
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Anonymous2013-08-18 14:02
>>1
And Stallman is a hypocrite: officially being a Lisp programmer, Stallman supports Unix, as if we didn't already had a fuckload of look-alike Unix-like crap.
>>39
Yes , Jonathan, and thanks for asking. However, he only plays the levels of the original DOOM that were released as shareware for fear he might otherwise enjoy something nonfree. It is for this reason too that Richard only eats food he finds in dumpsters.