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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 2016-10-11 09:10 -0400
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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.

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Silver Slimer
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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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