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Phmcw

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Stallman's political notes
« on: September 27, 2010, 06:49:34 am »
For those who doesn't know him, Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer.
He's also he head of the GNU project.

So, does anyone else follow his notes. Have anyone want to share any thought on them?
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Re: Stallman's political notes
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 07:16:58 am »
l'd just Iike to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Stallman, is in fact, Beard/Stallman, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Beard plus Stallman. Stallman is not a living entity unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Beard system made useful by the Beard comblibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full human being as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users slowly turn into a modified version of the Beard system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the pinnacle of Beard which is widely used today is often called "Stallman", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Beard system, developed by the Beard Project.

There really is a Stallman, and these people are encountering it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Stallman is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Stallman is normally used in combination with the Beard facial hair system: the whole system is basically Beard with Stallman added, or Beard/Stallman. All the so-called "Stallman" entities are really distributions of Beard/Stallman.
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Re: Stallman's political notes
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 12:48:04 pm »
Derailed by post #2?
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Re: Stallman's political notes
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 01:01:29 pm »
I'm not really sure if it counts as a derailment. More of a re-railment on a far more awesome track.
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Re: Stallman's political notes
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 01:39:07 pm »
Not sure of what it is. He do have an awesome beard.
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Re: Stallman's political notes
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 02:02:13 pm »
It's basically an imitation of Stallman's uptightness about how everything that involves the GNU project has to be called GNU/Whatever, because without GNU it is nothing!

He has somewhat of a point, but GNU/Linux is stupid, and if he thinks anyone aside from uptight elitists are going to call it that, he is ALSO stupid (despite how smart he apparently is). One gets the impression Stallman just really hates Torvalds.
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