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| From | Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe |
| Date | 2016-10-11 13:41 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <e648g8F3674U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2016-10-11, Silver Slimer <> wrote: > > On 2016-10-10 7:55 PM, Jim Polaski wrote: >> On 2016-10-10, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote: >>> On 10/10/2016 11:19 AM, Jim Polaski wrote: >>>> On 2016-10-10, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote: >>>>> On 10/9/2016 11:25 AM, Jim Polaski wrote: >>>>>> On 2016-10-09, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote: >>>>>>> On 10/8/2016 11:09 AM, Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I could easily use GNU/Linux for EVERYTHING and suffer >>>>>>>> no loss of any kind. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Except a huge loss of dignity. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But there is always the issue of exchanging information >>>>>>>> (i.e. documents) with other people. The majority of >>>>>>>> these "others" use Microjunk formats, and needless to >>>>>>>> say GNU/Linux cannot handle these formats. >>>>>>>> Traditionally, Microjunk formats were always a weird >>>>>>>> amalgamation of binary streams that are closely related >>>>>>>> tho their equally weird Component Object Model. The >>>>>>>> newer Microjunk OOXML format is more amenable to >>>>>>>> GNU/Linux but it is far from being a truly open >>>>>>>> standard. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Richard Stallman outlined a strategy to entice people >>>>>>>> into using more open formats for data exchange but, as >>>>>>>> one can easily foresee, the strategy got nowhere: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> > Every time I see that obese, disgusting, repulsive sasquatch telling >>>>>>> people what to do, I wanna send money directly to >>>>>>> Microsoft. >>>>>> >>>>>> I agree with some of what RMS says but like most extremists >>>>>> he's a couple of cards short of a full deck. >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember hearing him a few years ago on a Linux podcast, >>>>>> Linux Outlaws I think, where he was arguing with one of the >>>>>> hosts that it would be the right thing to do to let his >>>>>> family starve rather than take a job programming closed >>>>>> source software. That is just crazy. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That food-filled neckbeard can only babble such stupidity >>>>> because people give him free money: >>>>> >>>>> * FSF begging >>>>> >>>>> * speaking fees where people pay to see his pregnant belly >>>>> and watch him eat foot skin >>>>> >>>>> * a $240K MacArthur Fellowship grant in 1990 >>>>> >>>>> * an $830K Takeda Award for Techno-Entrepreneurial >>>>> Achievement for Social/Economic Well-Being in 2001 >>>> >>>> He's got a good gig going for himself. He travels the world >>>> preaching to the choir boosting his ego when they worship him. >>>> All in all he's fairly harmless as long as you don't happen to >>>> be down wind from him. >>> >>> >>> The audience that worships him looks (and smells) just like him. >>> Nobody normal would pay to see or listen to that freak. >> >> He is interesting to listen to simply because he is so odd. I >> wouldn't pay a cent to hear him speak and I certainly would not get >> anywhere near him. Bed bugs are extremely difficult to exterminate >> once they take up residence in your home. > > I wonder why the spicker doodles in South America keep inviting him to > speak to them. I imagine that free software is very popular there (the > same way the Sega Master System was even though it failed everywhere > else) but I wonder if that's really the case. > > - -- > Silver Slimer > Islam is a disease > Gab.AI: @silverslimer Linux and open source software is very popular outside the USA. Stallman is an icon in that field so I'm sure he is in demand as a speaker. Being strange just adds to the curiosity.
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A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 15:09 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-08 19:33 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 21:47 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-09 10:17 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 15:25 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:56 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-09 13:41 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:11 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:27 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:47 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:29 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:13 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 13:21 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 16:40 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 17:02 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 17:55 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:43 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:16 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:34 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 08:41 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 10:54 -0600
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:52 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 22:00 -0600
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 12:49 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:50 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:44 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:15 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 10:31 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-10 06:39 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:53 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:19 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 13:03 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:55 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:10 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 13:41 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:19 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:51 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:10 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:38 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:15 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:31 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 15:41 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:36 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:16 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:42 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:49 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:10 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:20 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:03 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:18 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:45 -0400
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:18 -0700
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:38 -0500
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:05 +0200
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:16 +0000
Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Alexander Suvorov <axr.suvorov@yandex.ru> - 2016-10-10 14:08 +0300
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