Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference 460
itwbennett writes "Stallman, 59, was speaking at the North Campus of the Polytechnic University of Cataluna when he started to feel ill and called for a doctor. It was originally reported in the Spanish press that Stallman was hypertensive, but it is not yet known what his eventual health status was, just that he left the building later under his own power." He is apparently okay and any significant confirmed updates will be posted here.
Anyone else wonder who... (Score:5, Funny)
Richard Stallman Falls the 3rd is?
Falls Ill (Score:5, Funny)
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I scratched my head over it for a minute, too. I was thinking, "Geez, this is the third time he's fallen? They've started numbering them? It's the sequel to the critically acclaimed Richard Stallman Falls II: New York?"
On a more serious note, I hope the guy is okay. RMS rocks.
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http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/mundane-name [geekz.co.uk]
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Well, they could have said "Richard Stallman Ill At Conference" and we'd be discussing whether he had grandchildren or not.
technology isn't that good for your health (Score:5, Insightful)
Shame it can be a fun and healthy career.
Re:technology isn't that good for your health (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, I do spend a lot of time on my butt-tocks, but I make up for it by doing other things outside of work. Having said that, my younger brother falls more in line with the stereotype: he's fat, can't run 20 meters without stopping, and thinks walking over to the vending machine to get some Cheetos is exercise.
In between those poles, you'll find other people involved in technology. In my office, we have all kinds. It depends on your mindset: you either want to stay active and healthy, or you don't. That goes for any segment of the populace regardless of career.
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Face it, lots of people in our field die young. Being fat and sitting around all day is not good.
People in general, but RMS? I have the impression he's always at a conference or university or somewhere giving a speech, if he ever sits down it must be in airport lounges and airplane seats. I wonder how many travel days that guy has per year. Maybe he should watch his blood pressure when he starts ranting about free software and the GPL, but I don't think he could keep it down if he wanted to.
Hmmm. (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe he forgot to bathe.
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On the scene (Score:5, Informative)
Stallman on the stretcher https://twitter.com/#!/Cribstopper/status/200641059389313024/photo/1/large
GNUmonia? (Score:5, Funny)
He probably has GNUmonia.
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correction (Score:2, Funny)
He fell GNU/ill
Sad that /. is nothing but trolls. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Sad that /. is nothing but trolls. (Score:5, Insightful)
You must be really new here.
This is par for the course. In fact, it's better than usual. Had this exact same story appeared a few years ago, there would've already been beard jokes, free as in beer jokes, GPL v3 jokes, and a whole conversation consisting of nothing but puns.
Re:Sad that /. is nothing but trolls. (Score:5, Funny)
Having a low UID does not mean you have anything meaningful to say.
A case in point.
Curses! (Score:4, Funny)
The agent comes into the room, closing the door behind them, and walks up to the front of the room. There is a large desk, and behind it is a large chair, turned to face the window.
The agent stops in front of the desk and waits. "Reporting, sir."
The chair does not move, but a voice comes from the unseen occupant. "Is it done?"
"Yes sir." The agent stands stock still, as several laser dots play over his chest, head and groin. "I mixed the first half of the binary agent in the bottled water at the hotel. No one else should be affected."
"I see. And the second half?"
"I placed that on the end of his underarm deodorant." The agent smiled at his own ingenuity.
There was a sigh from the chair. "Ah. I suppose that explains it, then."
"Sir?"
The chair slowly turned around. It was bright outside, so the occupant was lit from behind, and impossible to see. "He's alive. He's currently at the hospital and doing well."
The agent fidgeted. "Sir, I.." One of the lasers came close to his eyeball, giving him pause.
"He is a geek, agent. Geeks do not use deodorant. Or soap, for that matter." There was a soft clicking of buttons on a phone console being pressed.
"Begging your pardon sir, but you do." All of the laser dots jumped, as if shocked. In the shadowed chair, a pair of Giorgio Armani glasses gleamed in utter silence.
"Indeed I do." There were a few more soft taps, then a final tap, and the laser sights on the agent began to wink out. "Fair enough, agent. Good try, at least. And good recovery."
"Thank you, sir." The agent let his breath out slowly.
"Yes, I like to think I learned a few things from Steve, before he died." The chair began to turn again. "The receptionist will have your payment. We'll have use for you again, I'm sure."
The agent nodded. "Thank you, sir." He turned sharply on his heel and left the room, closing the door behind him. At the desk, the chair slowly turned to face the Redmond skyline.
"Another time, Richard."
I hope he's doing ok. (Score:2)
I don't see eye to eye with RMS on a lot of things, and I was appalled by his reaction to the death of Steve Jobs, but I certainly hope nothing is seriously wrong with him. There's no doubt he's contributed a lot to technology and it'd be sad to see something happen to him. I like to think heaven has its place for tech visionaries, though. Get well soon, RMS. (One more thing-- not trying to really be funny or condescending here, but I think maybe he should avoid eating toe jam from now on, or whatever he pu
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like he is going to GNU/Hell
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JIC anyone is wondering (Score:2)
50% Troll
30% Insightful
20% Offtopic
I guess the first rule of slashdot is you don't talk about GNAA or something.
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This is the most amazingly bizarre modded thread ever. It may be one of the first time I have seen half the posts rated positively and yet Troll/Flamebait at the same time.
In fact, I have mod points but I gave up using them on this article since the points would probably be better spent closing my eyes and clicking...
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:5, Funny)
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing." - June 2006 [stallman.org]
That was just a big misunderstanding. He thought he was talking about people who really like feet.
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This. I disagree with this end game, and most of his ideology. I'm posting this on an iPad for god's sake.
Yet. I hope he gets better. I hope he can make me see the light or vice a versa. I hope we can continue having this debate. I think some never ending debates bring us down, this one, however, brings us up.
He's a quirky and socially maladjusted but sweet man.
Come on RMS! Pull through!
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm posting this on an iPad for god's sake.
And of course the iPad is running iOS and apps build with XCode wich uses gcc as the compiler backend. No GNU, no iPad.
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And of course the iPad is running iOS and apps build with XCode wich uses gcc as the compiler backend
iOS has never used gcc. The early iPhones used llvm-gcc, which used gcc for parsing and LLVM for code generation. By the time the iPad was released, the parser had been replaced by clang, so gcc is not involved at all, neither is the GNU linker.
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:5, Insightful)
So do I. To a large part I think he's lost touch with reality and is busy tilting at windmills that nobody else can see. Yes, I use Linux on my computers because I don't see any reason to pay for an OS, pay for applications and then pay a different company for more applications to keep my computer free of malware, especially when I can get an equally good OS and applications for free. But unlike some people, I'm not a fanatic about it. I'm not going to try to push anybody else into Linux unless they're already interested in it. If asked, I'll tell them that whatever OS does what they want the way they like it is the best one for them. I can't imagine RMS doing that, and that's one of the things I don't like about him.
Having said that, I was saddened to hear that he's sick and I hope that it's nothing serious. 59 is much too young for us to lose him, because even though I don't agree with him, he keeps saying things that need to be said and bringing up ideas that need to be discussed.
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes, I use Linux on my computers because I don't see any reason to pay for an OS, pay for applications and then pay a different company for more applications to keep my computer free of malware, especially when I can get an equally good OS and applications for free. But unlike some people, I'm not a fanatic about it.
What you clearly don't get is that much of the reason you can get a good OS and applications for free is the GPL, for which you can thank RMS. I remember what it was like to install *BSD before the various BSDs were shamed into modernity by Linux. No thanks, you can have that.
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Your rights maybe, but not my rights. I'm better served by public domain open source, both when I've released software as open source and when I've used others open source.
GPL has only ever restricted what I want to do with open source software, not given me more freedom.
The idea that he's fought for my rights is laughable.
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You presumably develop commercial software. You like to incorporate the work of others (or just extend it) and make a commercial product. That's fine - we all need to make a living.
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So don't use GPL software and stop bitching. If someone published software under the GPL, they clearly meant for anyone modifying the software to release their modifications, they didn't intend for someone to come along and steal their code for a proprietary application. If you don't want to release your modifications, you're free to use proprietary software, BSD software or contact the copyright owners and request a special license.
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Most users are not programmers, and therefore, don't give a rat's ass about source code.
They also don't care about their rights, which is what the GPL is about, until they are inconvenienced by their lack. That doesn't mean that their rights aren't important.
The GPL is about the rights of users, not about the users' ability to get the source code. The former requires more than the latter; the latter is simply a means of securing the former.
I don't know enough to root my own Nook Simple Touch, but the availability of the source code permitted Nookdevs to do the same, and I benefit from not bein
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Of course we're not going to pile dirt on him when he's sick. That would be stupid. You don't put the dirt on top until he actually dies.
Just to stir the pot... (Score:5, Insightful)
Which compiler does BSD use for everything? And who wrote that initially? Who wrote a number of utilities that went along with it? Who wrote the GPL? Sure, RMS hasn't done any cool GUI apps or really any notable apps in 20 years. He moved on to running FSF and advocating his philosophy. He built the foundation for something big. It was actually the Open Source "movement" that freeloaded on the idea with a shitload of "approved" licenses.
I do agree that he should stick to his free software philosophy and perhaps anti-DRM stance (tech freedom?) and stay out of more social and political issues.
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FreeBSD is switching to Clang. Want to know why Clang exists? Because Stallman is so damn stubborn and narrow-minded that he intentionally made GCC difficult to work with. That's the exact opposite of technological freedom.
He is a hindrance to the movement. People are so emotionally attached to him for some reason that they refuse to acknowledge it.
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Which compiler does BSD use for everything?
Well, speaking for FreeBSD, we use Clang/LLVM and are in the process of removing GCC. We're hoping to flip the switch to defaulting to Clang this weekend. OpenBSD is in the process of switching to PCC. NetBSD supports multiple compilers.
And who wrote that initially?
Chris Lattner and others at the UIUC.
Who wrote a number of utilities that went along with it?
Various people, including myself.
Who wrote the GPL?
Some guy who insists that the best way of getting companies involved in the community is to refuse to meet them half way so that they go and write their own proprietary versions of tools instead of cont
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Re:Just to stir the pot... (Score:4, Informative)
Talk about rewriting history... Linus did not "choose the GPL", the first versions of Linux had a completely different license more similar to the creative-commons non-commercial license than to the GPL.
Linus changed to the license after several years. Many of the contributors were unhappy and requested that the non-commercial clause be dropped, Linus then considered that the operating system that his kernel was being used with was almost entirely licensed under the GPL and decided it made sense to change it to the same license.
Let's have some perspective. (Score:3)
Sure. He was shitty about Steve jobs' death.
But a man's life is in the balance here. Let's try to understand the gravity here.
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But a man's life is in the balance here. Let's try to understand the gravity here.
As an human being. he deserves as much respect as everyone else. I haven't denied him of that, nor said anything in contrary. But thousands of people die everyday, and few of them have had the opportunity to see the world, travel, and be fed by their own personal views. Why should I care more than every other anonymous that die eveyday? Was he better than them? Does his life has more value? I doubt.
Re:Let's have some perspective. (Score:4, Insightful)
No. But you don't cut off a hearse or piss on people's graves do you?
Sure, if he didn't build GCC, emacs or the gpl, no one would give a shit. But he did. So people care.
Show some goddamned decency.
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But you don't cut off a hearse or piss on people's graves do you?
No, I just don't care more about random strangers just because they had their life facilitated by being able to do academic work and public talks. You have people dying in Syria right now trying to defend values much more honorable than anything RMS ever stood for, do you give a shit about them? Because it is easy to talk about freedom (wtf!) and badmouth "evil corporations" when you and the ones that are close to you are protected from harm.
Show some goddamned decency.
YOU show some goddamned decency. There are people dying for what t
Re:Let's have some perspective. (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, let's show some goddamned decency. After all, RMS has never, in your parlance, cut off a hearse to piss on someone's grave [stallman.org]:
Nope, Stallman's a complete class act. He'd never do anything like that, he's too goddamned decent.
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But I admire him for his courage to speak out loudly what many only dare to think to themselves in their head.
Same goes about his thoughts about some "non-standard" sexual practices by the way. As long as all participants do it willingly, and none is hurt, why bother? If some practices are to be condemned universally, even when not hurtful, then why are their opponents always trotting out examples involving coercion, cruelty and violence to
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For someone who said what he did about Steve Jobs, while also stating that he was against death for even terrorists and mass murderers, thereby doing everything short of equating Jobs with the latter, I'd say that decency is too good a rebuttal for him
He said he's not glad Steve Jobs is dead. That completely undermines the "logic" of your entire comment.
I agree with rev0lt above
Well who the fuck are you? All we know about you is that you are anonymous and cowardly. From the content and anonymity of your comment, it is more likely that you are a shill than anything else.
Steve Jobs was a fascist bastard who ruled over the people who gave him money with an iron hand. He was also known to be an asshole to employees, famously throwing newtons at at least one while yelling "get these
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RMS has aspergers, and so, has dificulties on empathy.
He uses the Logic all times, without understanding emotional reactions from people around.
And, unless you are a hipocryte yourself, you must acknowledge that from a pure logic point of view, he's right.
For every one of the "crimes" he sustained should be legal, there was a anciant civilization (or more), that endure more time than our punny one, that allowed it.
You would be astonished if you had, in fact, paid attention on college. The Greeks worth speci
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I'm an Aspie myself and often reach absurd conclusions when being logical to the point of ignoring emotion. Different specifics than Stallman, but I definitely understand the concept. Ironically, a lot of negative emotions come about when this doesn't work out.
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RMS has aspergers, and so, has dificulties on empathy.
He uses the Logic all times, without understanding emotional reactions from people around.
And, unless you are a hipocryte yourself, you must acknowledge that from a pure logic point of view, he's right.
The illegality of bestiality is just as legally sound as any animal cruelty laws, because animals can't consent. Consent requires speech, moral development and sexual maturation.
It's well established medically that incest should be illegal because it leads to horrific birth defects, just as society shouldn't condone polygamy because it leads to a shortage of women and then pedophilia.
And while there is room for reforms (a 17 year old who has sex with a 16 year old is not a pedophile) pedophilia should be il
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Stallman's view is that proprietary software is bad for the user, not that it has some amorphous badness to it that infects everyone in the world. Stallman presumably owns neither the ambulance nor the hospital, so he is not the user. If the people w
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yeah. if it's fair when they're alive/healthy, it's fair when they're dead/sick. News of the death/illness spurs discussion of that person in general.
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Note that this is also the same man who wrote on his blog:
...that people should be free to do things we find distasteful, in the absence of evidence that those behaviors are harmful.
RMS is pro-freedom. I am shocked.
Note: he was referring to a Bush court nominee who opined that if choosing a same-sex partner were permissible, then each of the acts on that list may also be Constitutionally protected. I happen to disagree with his statement that those things should be allowed (with the exception of adultery, which we've pretty much all agreed is a household matter an
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:4, Funny)
See Article 134 of the United States Military Code of Justice [about.com]. Military officers are still tried and prosecuted for adultery - there have been cases in the last few years.
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OK, you got me there. And that actually doesn't surprise me, the idea being that personal indiscretion can leave you vulnerable to blackmail, which has potential national security implications in this context.
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There are also places in the world where adultery is illegal. The punishment for women can even be death. It's one of the major women's rights issues world wide.
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also, rms has been somewhat forgiving about software that is intended to run only on very specialized hardware. he's mostly about keeping general-purpose computers truly general-purpose.
of course this runs into demarcation problems, since he thinks phones are general-purpose computers and i don't (even if they happen to be implemented as such). still, i think medical equipment is safely on the "specialized hardware" side of things.
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Brilliance doesn't exclude being a bit nuts.
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GCC may be "mountains of mediocre code", but a) how many people can churn out code like that? and b) that mediocre code has allowed other programmers to produce free sof
Gosh, is the Slashdot audience really that creepy? (Score:5, Informative)
So, (and this is not the first time) it never ceases to amaze me that the response of some contingent of the Slashdot audience is to dig through his blog and use the worst two comments you can find to smear dirt upon him. He's a libertarian, and yes, if you take Libertarainism to its logical extreme, you might indeed believe that anything that doesn't hurt someone else should be legal. Nobody is accusing him of performing these acts, only of believing that freedom really means all possible freedom.
Like RMS, I'm getting old, and travel a lot to do talks. If I fall ill or get hit by a car, I hope you turkeys never find out.
and you are?... (Score:2)
JK
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You think this is creepy... You should have seen some of the comments here about Steve Jobs when he was dying.
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So, I was offended by those comments, too.
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Not everyone on /. is like that. Many of us quiet readers idolize folks like RMS and you, Bruce.
-brian
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Lol. Very funny. I hope that when you do get ill (and it will happen to all of us at one time or another) it is a long time from now. Keep up the great work Bruce, and don't let the gobbling of loco turkeys ever discourage you! I must be getting old too, while it is a very slippery slope with paedophilia what consitutes a child depends on where on the globe you are (eg. IIRC,
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One has to be careful here. The medical definition of pedophilia doesn't reach past the age of puberty. Using this, IMHO the only correct, definition, RMS appears to be batshit insane and I can't disagree here.
Alas, in the U.S., the word pedophilia has been re-appropriated to mean sex with underage persons, where "underage" is 16 or 18 depending on who is being asked. Notice that the notion of local law is completely lost in this re-appropriation, and the usual American view is such that it's their way or p
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Seriously though, two points:
1. Given his stand in favour of pedophilia, I'm surprised that he's not on a no-fly list, and that other countries give him a visitors' visa;
2. Given his age (59), and apparently that knew he had hypertension, it could be a side effect of medication.
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Notice that the post you are replying to (several paragraphs long and containing a number of links) was posted the very same minute as the story.
Not the first time such a thing has happened to today with posts that seem to be putting forward a particular agenda.
Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:5, Insightful)
There are 3 ways of doing it, all legitimate. You can subscribe and see the posts early. You can see the posts on firehose and guess which stories will make the front page. Or you can just be aware of the tech news stories of the day, and predict what will come up that way.
Write your opinion.
Then you need to wait for the story to come up. Possibly using a webpage change monitoring app with built in search. Or maybe just by lurking.
Or course you'd only go to that effort if you're either very keen to get moderated up on slashdot and get lots of replies. Or if you really care about the topic really strongly.
And Slashdot is full or both of those kinds of people. Although the specific topic they obsess about varies.
Everyone here that posts has an agenda to put forward.
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Everyone here that posts has an agenda to put forward.
So, what is your agenda?
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Oh it's very long and detailed. I have an opinion on a lot of things. What's yours?
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Pedophilia != underage sex, although the apparent mixup seems to place you firmly on U.S. soil. Alas, if you seriously think that it's any less "difficult or impossible to assess accurately for each case" when an adult reports a rape, you've obviously never read up on the subject, case law, etc. If there's only two people in seclusion, it's always he-said-she-said, no matter whether people involved are 14 or 60.
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yeah, i see the distinction, but if we want to get precise: the conditions of pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia are not illegal (yet) anyway. the laws govern the act.
by restricting the case of adults to those who have already reported rape, you are making the error of assuming the affirmative. you will note, obviously, that we do not ban all adult relationships on the basis that there may be coercion involved.
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yes, it's obvious for a three-year old, and stallman would agree with you. it's less obvious for 15, 16, 17 and 18; hence the various conflicting laws by jurisdiction.
let me rephrase what you said, "sexual coercion is evil and unethical, pure and simple." pedophilia is just a specific case.
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it's less obvious for 15, 16, 17 and 18; hence the various conflicting laws by jurisdiction.
18 years old is of legal age. Also, pedophilia is about attraction to prepubescent children which is hardly what a 15,16 or 17 year old is.
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fair enough, i was using the vernacular meaning of pedophilia.
admittedly, it is very hard for me to imagine pedophilia ever being consensual. hebephilia might be, but as i said it would probably be extremely rare. ephebophilia seems to be where the problems are.
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Also, pedophilia is about attraction to prepubescent children which is hardly what a 15,16 or 17 year old is.
Depends on the country you live in. A while ago, there was a big fuss about an american 16(?) year old (boy/girl?) that sent naked pictures of herself to a boyfriend. There are also some scandals with teachers and 16/17 year-old students, so I'd guess its not that black-and-white.
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16 is generally legal, at least in the USA.
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Re:Putting his money where his mouth is (Score:4, Informative)
Great, now could you please explain what 15-18 year olds have to do with pedophilia, which is the sexual preference for prepubescent children?
"Average" pubescent developments (ability to ejaculate in boys, and menarche in girls) occur about age 12-13, and this actually occurs somewhat after the onset of puberty, as puberty is the "process" of maturation in an individual from a child's body into an adult's body, and other physiological changes are required before those milestones may be reached.
A sexual attraction for prepubescents thus implies that they are somewhere younger than age 12, and more likely several years younger than that. Not 15-18 years old.
The point is, in the power differential between an adult and a prepubescent child, no "informed consent" is possible. I guess the problem is that Stallman has never mentally and emotionally matured beyond the 12 or 13 year old phase himself, and so he doesn't understand this power difference, which is, I suppose, a common affliction where Aspies are involved. Pedophiles are predators, plain and simple. Ephebophiles (the proper term for a sexual attraction for young-but-pubescent teens, generally held to be in the 14-18-ish bracket) are sometimes (I'd argue often, except for the "of the same age range as the partner") predators as well - man-children who are incapable of having an adult relationship, and so they prey on easily manipulated and influenced teens.
Here's an easy rule of thumb for the Aspies who like to argue that banging 14 year olds is acceptable behavior for a 27 year old man:
((your age/2) + 7) = minimum acceptable age of partner.
That's the youngest acceptable age of a suitable partner for any adult over the age of 18. You go below that age, and you're looking REALLY fucking creepy, you are *probably* a damaged Lost Boy incapable of having an adult relationship, and there's a *good* chance you're downright predatory. For those of you who are spitting Cheeto crumbs of rage at the screen while mashing the "Reply to This" link right now: seek help.
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Steve Jobs has been in the past an horrible father and a horrible bully, but that doesn't negate everything else he has done.
Which was what, exactly? Being a good marketeer? Being a follower of bullshit, sorry, alternate medicine? Being at the right place at the right time, and knowing the exact people? Am I missing something?
And yes, some people do some pretty weird things to avoid getting distracted by the Internet, but in his case, since he's actually been a very productive software developer
I'm eager to see Hurd finished. No, really. I can't stand RMS for various reasons (and some of them were already posted), but Hurd was a promising project that could actually foster innovation, and instead is a dead turd. And most of what he's made is either 1) developed and maintained by someone else 2) run
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It offends me deeply
You're in the wrong place not to be offended, mate. This is a *discussion* site, so every point of view deserves their space. RMS itself is a firm believer of "freedom" (or whatever he thinks is freedom), so why aren't you?
I doubt that you yourself have changed the course of history for the better.
I doubt he has too, but only time will tell. Maybe his message will be lost in translation and end up like Guy Fawkes. Maybe you will run over the next world dictator with your car, and - never knowing how you changed the course of history for the better - serve a life sentence for murder
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quite probably running software compiled with the compiler he wrote
I actually doubt that. I have used the compiler "he wrote" (as in the pre-EGCS merge), and by then, GCC was already a collective effort. Have you used it?
or licensed under the licence he created
Yes, he created a new license instead of using the already available (and still available today) open source licenses. And if you believe that crap about "BSD can be close sourced", you aren't using the internet today. Or you do it with a "GPL" shield that acts as proxy between those BSD technologies and yourself.
which changed the course of history
Linux changed the course of (from today's p
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Linux changed the course of (from today's perspective) history. And it is the major GPL-licensed project. Not Hurd, not Emacs, not even GCC. How many lines did RMS contributed?
In the absence of Stallman, how much of GCC would have been written? In the absence of GCC, how much of Linux would have been written?
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In the absence of GCC, how much of Linux would have been written?
Every single line. RMS did not invent compilers, not even open source compilers.
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Interesting. RMS tried to find an open-source C compiler, but couldn't. What did he miss? And if there were alternatives, why didn't Linus use them instead of GCC?
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Are you stupid, or, well, stupid? Federal law prohibits transfer of prescription drugs. Having a prescription drug covered by insurance and then transferring it is also considered to be insurance fraud in may states. Getting a fluid you'll be injecting into your body from someone who posted an ad on Craiglist -- well, stupid it is, then.
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Getting a fluid you'll be injecting into your body from someone who posted an ad on Craiglist -- well, stupid it is, then.
More like Darwin Award canditate.
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Responding to yourself is OK, but calling yourself a troll?
Also, if you're so fed up with Linux, why are you using it at all? Isn't relegating it to the server room an admission that it works?
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I would warn off people anywhere to buy insulin from nonreputable sources.
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Stallman heads the Free Software Foundation, and I agree that they need both a new leader, and a new name. Call it Liberated Software Committee
Software liberation association?