That Gates is a bastard has never been a doubt for me, but Gates is not Microsoft anymore. If rms accepts some contacts with Microsoft it is not with Gates and maybe because Steve Ballmer is not there anymore either.

I have the impression that there has been a great movement of prudery in the last few years, which serves as a pretext for eliminating troublesome people. And a person like rms is, for many people, an embarrassing person.

So it is enough to make him look like a monster, at least as "compromised" in order to try to shut him up.

I see that you are very ignorant of these subjects and that instead of working patiently and in depth you prefer romantic figures such as Aaron Schwartz who never did anything serious and was caught red-handed hacking data at MIT.

rms really works for freedom, all its actions are directed towards this goal. And for some years now he has been suspicious of the technological society. For a geek like him, this is a remarkable lucidity.

He realizes that the computer is now a way of slavery for humanity, while on all sides we push towards the computerization of everything. How can we imprison people in their homes, control them at all times with the simple pretext of a disease that kills almost no one, without computers?

All this is more than enough for some people to find it interesting to silence him.

But I know I won't convince you, and I don't want to. So believe what you want, imagine that you have found in rms a new Jack the Ripper if it amuses you or if it confirms your delusions.

Good night to you

And you, kid, what have you done in the last 11 years of your life? And your whole life for that matter.

Stallman has written millions of lines of code, it's probably a trivial thing, but as it was his job, it's not bad, right?

That he' s getting a bit tired with age is normal, nobody is as productive at 60 as at 25.

And as I am neither jealous nor envious, I don't feel the need to try to smear him to hide the fact that I would never have had the capacity and tenacity that he had. And I simply find sad your attitude that is made of contempt and arrogance.

If you hate Bill Gates, pick up a gun and shoot him. Then you will have done something, and leave Stallman alone.

Defend Richard Stallman !

by Leah Rowe of Libreboot

Defendre Richard Stallman !

par Leah Rowe de Libreboot

libreboot.org/news/rms.html

So, do you like Stollman and stands for him in the way he stands and excused his friends for having sex with minors under patronage of Epstein? Is that right?

Yes, I prefer people who are faithful in friendship to the little inquisitors, is that a good answer?

I have been administering and programming computers since 1984, first under CPM, then under MacOS and Novell, then under Linux or *BSD. It so happens that I have never bought or used any Microsoft product except a mouse! And I have preferred to give up jobs rather than to have to use products from this firm.

And you are the very example of people who want to take rms out of the game, I hope at least that for distilling all this bullshit you are well paid.

free software monk

nicely put. n_n

i merely aspire to be, but keep succumbing to edge conveniences... not sure what non-free software i have currently, but some of the distros i use are likely slipping me something without my ken or configurable controls on packages by license.