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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

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President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

OldAlias posted:

between 260 and 300lbs

ty for being sensible. :hai:

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

jesus nws that!

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

i literally just asked "how tall are you" so im guessing either no response or an incredibly detailed one

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
i wonder which system of measurement he prefers. is metric “more free” than imperial, for example????

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
i think he's one crumb short of a foot

obstipator
Nov 8, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

:swoon:😍😘

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
more like richard smallman :mad:

computer toucher
Jan 8, 2012

no use asking.

it’s Richard stall-man.

Kyron
Aug 6, 2013


What a babe

I HAVE GOUT
Nov 23, 2017
Richard Handsomeman

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

electricity bad
Fun Shoe

computer boi

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

Only if he's 5'3"

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

Only if he's 5'3"

my Yeeloong don’t want none
unless it’s open source son

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



how come no one has posted tom whatever his name was and stallman.jpg yet?

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

RMS posted:

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.

could have invited richard to the smac game and he still wouldn't be the slowest player

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
he measures it in inches from gnu headquarters

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Stymie posted:

i think he's one crumb short of a foot

lol

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

he mailed me back. he said "sorry, i do not publish that sort of personal data." he also told me a bit about the free software movement and gave me a few helpful links.

obstipator
Nov 8, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
shouldnt his personal data be open source???
free as in freedom my rear end!!

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Roosevelt posted:

he mailed me back. he said "sorry, i do not publish that sort of personal data." he also told me a bit about the free software movement and gave me a few helpful links.

i guess we'll never know :\

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Did you try explaining to him that information wants to be free?

Here, maybe if you play him this song he'll understand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

:ohdear:

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

obstipator posted:

shouldnt his personal data be open source???
free as in freedom my rear end!!

i hosed up because i mentioned open source. here's the email

quote:

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

> I apologize for bothering you. We're trying to settle an argument. Would
> you mind telling me your height?

Sorry, I don't publish that sort of personal data.

> Thank you, and extra thanks for all you've done for open software,

I'm afraid you've fallen pray to widespread misinformation.
You're probably thinking of open source -- but I don't support that
and never did anything for it.

On the contrary, the term "open source" was coined specifically
to reject what I stand for -- the free software movement.
I founded the free software movement to win freedom for
computer users, specifically the freedom to control our own
computing. The point of open source is to reject that idea
and never even talk about it.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.

If you appreciate my work, please relate it to the free software
ethical principles that I've identified and fought for, not
with "open source". I hope you'll come to agree with them. See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Roosevelt posted:

i hosed up because i mentioned open source. here's the email

i’d say it’s a toss up as to whether or not he already had that text punched up.

write him back and imply that he advocates for fremium software.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Inform him that all your emails are licensed under the 3-clause BSD.

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

i'm not going to hassle him any more. i'm already pretty weirded out that i got drunk and thought it was a good idea to write to Richard Matthew Stallman to ask him how tall he is

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

Roosevelt posted:

i hosed up because i mentioned open source. here's the email

a bummer on multiple levels

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
stall man

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

ESR

:laffo:

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

watch out, ESR is a wizard, he might teleport behind you can cut you in two with the skills he learned in Sword Camp

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

OldAlias posted:

watch out, ESR is a wizard, he might teleport behind you can cut you in two with the skills he learned in Sword Camp

I'm just afraid he'll rank on me in the Jargon File and, in 10 or 15 years, someone might notice. :ohdear:

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

OldAlias posted:

watch out, ESR is a wizard, he might teleport behind you can cut you in two with the skills he learned in Sword Camp

someone post his LARP resume

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

OldAlias posted:

he might teleport behind you can cut you in two


heh. nothing personnel, kid.

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



I HAVE GOUT posted:

Richard Handsomeman

theres some photo where he was an undergrad and kinda trim

its like he made some faustian bargain with a podiatrist somewhere

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



went toe to toe and lost

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
physician, heel thyself

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.

god bless trumpy bear posted:

someone post his LARP resume

this is the new rms thread, if u want a new esr thread come up with the pretext and diy

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb


According to my careful and painstaking analysis, and assuming that's a model 7.70 Irwin Seating Classic Lecture model, I can tell you that he is 6.315 feet tall or 1925mm.

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.

Salt Fish posted:



According to my careful and painstaking analysis, and assuming that's a model 7.70 Irwin Seating Classic Lecture model, I can tell you that he is 6.315 feet tall or 1925mm.

no wonder he can't find a shirt that fits

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President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
walking stall: the rms story

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