LinuxDevCenter Interviews RMS

prostoalex writes "LinuxDevCenter interviews RMS. Interesting that Stallman supports the free software projects ported to proprietary operating systems: 'Porting free applications to nonfree operating systems is often useful. This allows users of those operating systems to try out using a few free programs and see that they can be good to use, that free software won't bite them. This can help people overcome worries about trying a free operating system such as GNU/Linux. Many users really do follow this path.'"

Stroke for RMS

[flosofl]

I know this is OT. But I thought of a way to give RMS a stroke (or a facial tic at the vary least):

Me: Boy I sure like my Linux system

RMS : That's GNU/Linux!

Me: Yep, brand-spanking new

RMS: No, no, no! That's GNU G-N-U. GNU/Linux..

Me: GNU/Linux? What's that?

RMS: GAH! It's what you have installed!!

Me: Oh, you mean Linux

RMS: GNU/Linux!!!

*** Repeat ad infinitum :)

Bonus pts if you actually say Linux OS by the Red Hat people :)

Merry Chr.. er .. Happy Holidays

Re:Gimp on Windows is useful

[christian simpleman]

Does she have any sisters?

Re:Ingredients?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ingredients:

Assignments - 30%
If statements - 30%
For statements - 20%
While statements - 5%
Dodgy pointer accesses - trace

The Hurd runs, but not reliably.

[IO ERROR]

RMS: The Hurd runs, but not reliably. The developers are working on it slowly now, although one is arranging to get funds to work on it a substantial fraction of his time. The developers have concluded that Mach is unreliable as a microkernel and that they need to transplant the Hurd to L4 instead. But this requires substantial rewrites.

I was going to make a comment on the Hurd, but rms beat me to it.

POSIX ME HARDER

[Laxitive]

Quote:

Some GNU utilities such as df and du do not follow the POSIX spec unless you set the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT. Normally GNU df and du print disk space figures in units of k. POSIX says to print disk space figures in units of 512 bytes. If you set POSIXLY_CORRECT, GNU df and du do that. (My original plan was to name it POSIX_ME_HARDER.) I would guess that very very few users set POSIXLY_CORRECT.

Good to see RMS has a sense of humour. I got a nice chuckle out of that comment :)

-Laxitive

Re:Cygwin

[homerules]

I don't think he would understand the question. He seemed to be having a tough time at it.

Have you Hurd?

[fuzzy12345]

Yep, it's great that RMS sez we can port GNU stuff to the operating systems we have now, rather than having to wait until GNU Hurd thunders into view. Or does it only run on the Itanium?

Re:Ingredients?

[jonbryce]

Warning: Made in a production environment where nuts are present.

Re:Free apps on non-free OS

[Lachek]

Yeah, my brain just couldn't grasp the idea of not taking sides. It is pretty rare to find this behaviour in people these days, especially on /.

SkyNet, is that you? :)

Re:Cygwin

[njcoder]

"My guess, RMS has been bitten in the past answering a question he thought was about X, when the questioner thought it was about Y."

I don't think X is part of the GNU project though the FSF has some opinions on it [gnu.org].

As for Y. I have no idea what that is.

Re:Freedom?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about we all call you Asswipe, Asswipe?