Richard Stallman
Jesus, 2006
Richard Matthew Stallman (frequently abbreviated to RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. An acclaimed hacker, his major accomplishments include Emacs (and the later GNU Emacs), the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. He is also the author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most widely-used free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time as a political campaigner, advocating free software and campaigning against software idea patents and expansions of copyright law. The time that he still devotes to programming is spent on GNU Emacs. He supports himself by being paid for around half of the speeches he gives.
So? Well, all the software that is used to run BrownNoiseUnit comes as result of guys like Richard Stallman.
I like Richard for another reason. He sees the free (as in freedom) use of computers as a basic human right. Yep, he says that it violates human rights to have proprietary software used in education and governments, because these institutions end up relying on the corporations supplying the software to them.
Scary stuff? Well, he might also be nuts:
On his homepage he also says to not buy Harry Potter Books and thinks software patents are satanic.
I thought there would be no better way to test out the new site than to introduce everyone to crazy man Richard Stallman.
Imagine having the intellectual power to take such a stand.
I had a mate once called benny, and he was a geek like this too, designing software to allow coles to deliver its produce to warehouses, all from his nest in the hills above byron.
he was 23 and making a mound of dough, which he spent on surfing gear and gadgets. he smoked an enormous amount of green, which he grew himself, and he floated around on this kind of zen haze all the time, rarely getting excited, but wanting to be @art of whatever was going on.
big head benny. wow. I wonder how he is going now.
Scary lookin' dude.
Good on him and good on his hair and beard. I like his constitution. He may be nuts but he may be right. Just watched one of his talks on patents. He interupts his own intro - a funny dude. Richard Dreyfuss could play him in a bio pic. Just get him a wig and beard. I wish he had lectured me on intellectual property law...I may have paid attention.
He writes his own lyrics to songs here is an example.
"Boot It!
(This filk uses the tune of "Beat it". I wrote it in 2001.)
When your computer doesn't do what you type,
And half the screen is covered with a big white stripe,
The vendor won't pay any mind to your gripe,
So boot it. Just boot it.
When you discover that a process won't die,
If kill -9 won't work there's nothing else to try.
Your jobs are dead meat, so kiss 'em goodbye
And boot it. 50 hours of work,
Just boot it, boot it.
And if you can't boot it, shoot it!
When you reboot it, work will be lost.
It doesn't matter what this will cost.
Just boot it. Just boot it.
Just boot it. Just boot it.
When all the characters are coming out weird,
And won't come back right even when the screen is cleared,
You can't fix such things by tugging your beard
So boot it. Just boot it.
If your computer still is running Windows,
And every time it crashes your frustration grows.
When the system's not free, you will always be hosed.
Just boot it. Put a GNU system on,
And boot it, boot it.
Or put it in your horn, and toot it!
It doesn't matter what was to blame.
Till you reboot it, your machine's lame.
Just boot it. Just boot it.
Just boot it. Just boot it.
It doesn't matter what you did wrong.
Till you reboot it, your machine's gone.
Just boot it. Just boot it.
Just boot it. Just boot it. "
Ha fkn ha. Check out his site scroll down to his humour section. It's a scene mangs. He's a dude.
Can we get him to write for BNU?
http://www.stallman.org/war-victim.html
getting there
I think you've stumbled across "the dude's" brother.
I wonder if he bowls?
nice pick up aunty... let's go get ourselves a lane.
Shut the fuck up Aunty Jackson. The converstation does not start and stop at your pleasure. Were you listening to the story Aunty Jack? Were you listening to the Dude's story?
So you have no frame of reference, Aunty Jack. You're like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know-There's no fucking reason, here's my point, Dude there's no fucking reason.
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