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Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe

From Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe
Date 2016-10-10 09:50 -0400
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On 2016-10-10 9:34 AM, Marek Novotny wrote:
> On 2016-10-10, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-10-09 7:43 PM, Jim Polaski wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-09, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2016-10-09 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.
>>>> 
>>>> It was on the Linux Action Show and he was saying that to
>>>> Bryan Lunduke whose jaw just dropped.
>>>> 
>>>> - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer
>>> 
>>> That was the show. I thought RMS was joking until I realized he
>>> was serious. That was the point where I realized that Stallman
>>> has some very strange ideas. It's interesting how many in the
>>> Linux community continue to defend and protect him and his
>>> obtuse and unrealistic opinions and ideas. And that's not even
>>> including his comments on pedophilia. He's like the Debbie
>>> Wasserman Shultz of the Linux world. A very bad spokesperson
>>> for Linux and someone who should retire from the evangelist
>>> role and turn the reigns over to some other person with less
>>> polarizing views.
>> 
>> He's extreme in his views but I respect the fact that he won't
>> bend. Most people see him as unrealistic but to his credit, he
>> believes in his stance so deeply that he's unwilling to
>> compromise and the ersult is a number of distributions which
>> follows his philosophies very closely and which happen to perform
>> extraordinarily well. I am very fond of Trisquel in particular
>> and if I didn't game at all or have a powerful GPU on my laptop,
>> I probably would be using it.
> 
> I have watched a fair amount of interviews with RMS over the last
> couple years. For the most part I don't have any issues with him at
> all. I do contribute monies and am a member of the FSF. I like his
> GPL a lot more than any other license. We also him to thank for
> having all the bits beyond the Kernel, which is a substantial
> contribution.

I would have loved to meet him and his henchmen when I was in Boston a
few weeks ago but I guess it's my own fault for ending up in the city
on a Saturday when the FSF had no reason to be open. I also happened
to be there right after the transsexual controversy and they might
have been hiding from the public.


- -- 
Silver Slimer
Islam is a disease
Gab.AI: @silverslimer
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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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