Today is RMS' birthday.
May Holla Forums wish him a happy 65th!
Happy Birthday, RMS!
Thomas Barnes
John Cox
We made him a picture for his birthday one year. I refuse to work on another for him until GNU HURD is production quality, though. Lazy old parrotfucker.
David Ramirez
Daily reminder that Hurd is not a priority project given that GNU Linux-Libre is a real thing.
Wyatt Moore
this
just stick to Genode OS for your autistic microkernel needs
Logan Hall
that's almost 70 with his impressive physical fitness level who is going to replace him to save GNU
Juan Howard
RMS quit the green party, join the cybernetic gang.
Gang gang
Cooper Jenkins
Happy birthday to GNU
Happy birthday to GNU
Happy birthday Richard Stallman
Happy birthday to GAAAANOOOOOOO
Logan Thomas
If anyone is gonna email RMS get a birdlover.com for the luls
get that shit on mail.com
(sadly google captcha required)
Colton Stewart
That image is cringy.
Free software does not have anything to do with communism.
Michael Mitchell
May he lives another 65 to kick proprietary bitches ass...happy birthday GNU/Stallman
Juan Kelly
h-happy birthday RMS
Julian Howard
Anyone have a pic of him when he broke his arm in Finland?
John Cox
What will happen when RMS dies?
Brody Scott
He will meet thy his God
Alexander Bailey
happy b-day rms-sama!
Nathaniel Rodriguez
A lot of people will parrot the line
The free software movement will continue on without him because he is not the free software movement by himself. He is the father who started the movement to teach people about the importance of freedom in computing. There are many people now who deeply understand this message and will continue to preach it long after Stallman is gone.
Christian Walker
meanwhile linus is going to get immediatly replaced with a CIA plant.
Easton Williams
I don't really believe that's going to happen. His current Linux lieutenants know who he his and how he would lead the Linux team. They'll most probably act in the future with the same leadership as he acts today.
Jack Morales
we recompile him
Alexander Cox
...
Camden Gomez
Happy birthday :3
Julian Barnes
He is injured, so who cares
Isaac Rogers
Christian Smith
Happy birthday RMS! :)
Sebastian Turner
proof?
Jose Williams
Show me a doctor who says it's okay to eat toe fungus.
Adrian Anderson
Should we buy him some proprietary software?
Parker Young
Show me a doctor who says it's not okay to eat toe fungus.
Gavin Wright
I'm not glad he's alive, but I'm glad he's dead soon.
Thomas Jackson
RMS is the Jesus of technology.
Hudson Miller
checks out
Also known as semitic religions. And polite sage.
Eli Williams
I thought GuixSD uses Hurd?
Xavier Myers
It can but it's not a priority.
I've left guix since they introduced a coc (in guile) a few months ago.
Leo Nelson
I was unable to find anything about guile having a CoC. Can you please share some links about it?
Adam Brown
Sorry I meant guix
lists.gnu.org
The CoC is a derivative from the Contributor Covenant aka the most vile of coc in existence.
The guile community is a lot related to guix tho.
Aiden Mitchell
RMS is an atheist.
Bentley Gutierrez
Our light in the darkness. Happy birthday.
Jacob Jackson
Please know your subject before saying tings like that RMS impeached god a long time ago and is a atheist.
Jaxson Cox
Of course it doesn't. Neither does it has anything to do with ayncrap or nutsac cringe.
==cringe== is a overused word nowadays that is more or less meaningless.
Elijah Walker
I was just refering to RMS's political alignment being with the greens and that it is fairly close to commie libsoc ideology than any other. Nothing about free software.
Liam Nelson
RIP in piece ;_;
good night sweet prince
Ian Bailey
I disagree. How many people you know who refuse to use any closed software? rms is the only person who lives like he preaches. I use GNAA/loonix daily but still use closed source software for vidya and phone. Most people will compromise, rms never will.
Jose Brooks
he also refuses to use any source-available software that's non-free.
David White
I don't use any nonfree software on my desktop. Over spring break I will be setting up my laptop to run on only free software.
I guess one day I'll have to smash my phone with a sledgehammer and then I'll be fully liberated.
Ignoring the operating system I do not run any nonfree software on my phone
Kayden Bell
Post your RARE Stallmans.
Samuel Carter
happy birthday tinfoilfag
Adam Martinez
I know several people on the Trisquel and Debian forums, plus some FSF guys who only use FOSS.
Personally I use only FOSS (even libreboot) on my desktop and laptops. The only exception being a PDP-8 and some 80s/90s PCs with proprietary BIOSes, but I differ from Stallman in that I can tolerate proprietary firmware if it's pre-botnet.
Noah Johnson
Justin Campbell
rms uses non-free software all the time. In ATMs, in the avionics for the jets he flies in, in the cars he drives or rides in. He even uses other people's phones and computers that run proprietary software. He realizes this, of course, and even addressed it (rationalized it away, I'd say) on his website.
It's important to realize that Richard does whatever he wants, and he is a really smart guy. If he wants to do something, he'll do it, and he'll find a way to rationalize it. For example, he likes to save money by using those savings cards that they have at grocery stores. But he doesn't like being tracked by using them, so he refuses to get one. He has no problem using other people's savings cards, though. If you asked him about it, he'd come up with some rationalization about how it's actually fighting the system, because his use of the card messes with their tracking the card's owner, even though their systems are obviously sophisticated enough to disregard his anomalous use.
The free software movement was never about you, or me, or anyone but rms. It was about recruiting people to create software for him so he'd never run into software that he couldn't modify again, like that printer driver in the 1970s that started his obsession. In spite of his severe autism, he realized that "write software for me for free" was not going to convince a lot of people, so he created GNU, the GPL, and the FSF in order to achieve his personal desires. The fact that other people have also benefited is just a side effect.
Chase Russell
It's funny, in old age he has an aura of respectability. When you see him as a young man like that, you're more inclined to write him off.
Robert Smith
Happy birthday!
Jason Turner
No, he doesn't.
Jonathan King
stallman.org
stallman.org
keep yourself safe, amigo
Samuel Campbell
Is Richard Stallman-sama one of the few good Jews, like Jesus, Marx, Bobby Fischer and Stanley Kubrick?
Ayden Howard
There are no good Jews.
Just take a look at his political opinions outside of technology.
Joseph Baker
I think his autism defends us from jewing the FSF. If instead of him it was some non-autist in charge with and just as lefty he'd turn the FSF into Mozilla and bleed money into niggerfication projects.
Carson Taylor
BSD cuck detected.
Anthony King
I think it's a bad argument.
Samuel Adams
I agree with that but I'm concerned about some of the FSF members RMS has always been the voice of the movement, see for example what happened with Francis Rowe, discussions stopped after RMS posted on the email list.
So I agree that RMS is not the free software movement but A LOT of people just follow him without thinking and that's not good for the movement so I'm worried about how it's going to shape itself afterwords when I see the "social justice" people in it and around it I'm not enthusiastic.
Aaron Adams
Stop the shitposting.
Happy Birthday RMS!
Benjamin Murphy
Happy birthday Richard.
Chase Martin
RMS is fanatic who doesnt understand cohesion in operating systems
Luis Allen
how would I join the realtime online shitposting?
like, sending questions, etc.
Ryan Richardson
Stallman's freedom is only relevant to the machines that he owns. My freedom is only relevant to the machines I own. If I go to bank and operate their ATM, their use of Windows has no effect on my freedom or my computing. If I fly in a jet and find that their in-flight entertainment system relies on Netflix, I don't actually own the jet so running Netflix has no effect of my freedom. If I borrow a friend's credit card, I am not being tracked under my name when I use it, it generates activity under my friend's name.
The free software movement has always been all about the users of the computers they own and the software they choose to install on their own computers. What other people choose for their own selves normally does not affect my freedom.
Connor Rogers
Can't even go on it via tor.
David Parker
really?
why?
Angel Hernandez
What is cohesion in operating systems? If you say the Unix philosophy, your opinion is invalid.
Xavier Morales
idk I suppose that it uses some function that tor deactivates for security reasons.
I'm getting:
Mason Morales
scripts probably
but you can watch the video with mpv
Parker Morales
Maybe Jews aren't a hivemind and there are good and bad ones.
Elijah Reyes
BSD fags can't comprehend that someone might want to help the community at large. They all think they're going to be the ones taking advantage of free code, but it is always they who get cucked in the end. Truly a metaphor for America, where even the poor believe themselves to be temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Christopher Allen
Links/tl;dr on that?
Elijah Jenkins
Libreboot dev blamed GNU for fireing some tranny because being tranny and left GNU
Stallman posted on mailing list that the gender wasn't an issue.
Turns out Libreboot Dev had mental problems, said sorry and went back to GNU
Carter Gutierrez
Oliver Hughes
...
Cameron Reyes
This is now a shoop chain
Lucas Miller
lol that is based as fuck RMS is the new face of Realtek Semiconductor
Eli Sanchez
Juan Mitchell
I prefer the GIMP.
Liam Butler
Yes, my modification to the image was made with GIMP.
Easton Diaz
And this was unironically made with mspaint.
William Peterson
Happy Birthday, you magnificent bastard!
Levi Green
check'd