Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:52:16 +0000 Message-ID: <87v7f4oym7.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <10o629v$1qssb$1@dont-email.me> <10o6emj$1uql3$5@dont-email.me> <20260303111343.00000572@gmail.com> <20260304080130.000068c7@gmail.com> <10oab0q$39n4f$6@dont-email.me> <10ocqti$4fas$3@dont-email.me> <1773078239-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10onkbs$3pbjf$10@dont-email.me> <875x74qw8x.fsf@parhasard.net> <10oo7qc$3v925$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1575365"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b36 (Linux-aarch64) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/mO5FvTeKCu9avWj39NUNcgx1Ak= sha1:jB2rrYRjFw5+W7kaxbuhbnsq/Bw= X-User-ID: eJwFwYkBACEIA7CVhJZix/Ee9h/BpKDQ21SJNTU4mvicf5x2ewkaEHRF5hnubcp4OKz04gUBJg+a Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82804 alt.usage.english:1139152 Ar an deichiú lá de mí Márta, scríobh Lawrence D’Oliveiro: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:00:30 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > > > ... banishing thoughts of Richard Stallman from my mind ... > > In a thread with this subject line? In alt.usage.english the subject line may or may not have any relevance to the posts and so I only tend to pay attention to it for the first few posts in a thread. > > Oh well, yanked back to [focus] on the world of that nasal voice and > > poor judgement in one corpulent package. > > Prophets are often not nice people to meet personally. > > He has sounded the alarm on two notable occasions: once about software > patents, the other about cloud computing. And history has proven him > right both times. You don’t have to like him to admit that. I was asking for that, wasn’t I! -- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ (C. Moore)