Notices tagged with rms

@rms founded the #GNU Project and with it launched the free software movement, setting the stage for a world where users could be in control of their computing. His commitment is why we continue to have free software today! #FreeSoftware #GNU #RMS #SoftwareFreedom

@rms is a true visionary. He saw the need for software freedom before people even knew it was a question, and we're all better off for it. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FSF #RMS

Bueno, de vuelta a C y Scheme. Gracias, #GNU; gracias, #RMS.

At some point #RMS will no longer be with us, that's just inevitable.

The issue I see most of the people wanting to break the bond between him and the #FreeSoftware movement is to move it away of its ethical and technical values, and ideology.

This is not the first time, the OSI was the result of early attemps.

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#Support4RMS

Well, it looks like I've got some highly targeted yelling to do on Monday.

#FSF #RMS #FOSS

@freemo Since I followed the 2021 cancellation of #RMS I did some research into all the things.

1. what he said about children and adults in sexual relationships he admitted he was wrong and that children having sexual intercoarse with adults its wrong since chidren cannot honestly be contenting.

2. The things he said about stagitory law is accurate the age does change when crossing state lines. it used to be 14 in Canada.

RMS is awkward and has made women feel uncomfortable but I do not think he is guilty of any crime other then opinions. In many of these cases people have even mis represented the truth regaerding his opinions to often.

#RMS being cancelled again.

clown world.

Feliz, muy feliz 41 aniversario a #GNU.

El trabajo para integrar GNU a la sociedad en general aun no termina, es más falta mucho por delante.

Pero será una muy necesaria tarea de la actual y futuras generaciones.
"Software Libre para una Sociedad Libre"

Muchos años más y para todos los que lo hicieron y siguen haciéndolo posible.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html

Salud!

#SoftwareLibre #RMS

The more I use Lisp, the more I understand the Unix philosophy as something not for daily use, but as something to be lying on top seamlessly, as #RMS wanted, and later with #GNU Hurd. Kinda like daemons and libraries doing the hard work in the background, silently; while you would using a Lisp interface for daily usage and Lisp having bindings (not wrapper for Unix commands, but API) to everything.
It would be interesting if the #Lem editor got something similar to the #eshell for #Emacs.

Just realized that my university has a lab named after Richard Stallman.
(In India)
@rms @fsf

#gnu #linux #freesoftware #foss #india #opensource #rms #stallman #richardstallman

That year was 1997. Computers on the manufacturing floor at work were mostly open hardware Z80 controlled GE/Fanuc PLC's... or PC's running a several kilobyte assembly language program connected to parallel port I/O boards. And that older stuff worked like a top 24/7/365 unless the power went out or someone accidentally blasted the steam seals near the desktop computer. They were controlling large production lines long as football fields.

Then some engineer who I will never forgive decided to rewrite all the production machine systems in Visual Basic for Windows 95. Windows and other proprietary systems were crashing like crazy. Remember, this is when Windows didn't use memory page protection and was filled with kernel bugs. It was unreal. If a machine had to be restarted, the production had to be restarted and that made a lot of scrap. There were about 30 active production lines running at one time, limited to the 1.6 megawatt agreement with the utilities. If all the Windows machines crashed, it took about 80,000 pounds of raw materials to restart the production lines. Forklifts would be filling up the dumpster on the back dock.

Every night at midnight, proprietary software known as BackupExec would start at midnight. After about half an hour, the load average would increase on the Oracle database and crash it. Every production machine would routinely push the production report and would crash the entire production line if it wasn't there to sync. The whole plant would shut down shortly after midnight, every night. After a week, this got old, fast.

One night, I had a life changing event with a Windows machine. An operator called on the radio that a plastic extruder was on fire. It was a 330,000 kilowatt PVC extruder and the Microsoft Visual Basic computer was showing zero degrees on every heat zone. Obviously with the fire from the barrel heaters, it was at least several hundred degrees. A few moments later was a loud explosion and the plant floor went dark with chlorine gas. I could see light to the right of me and that's where I ran. When smoke cleared, I could see the extruder barrel had shot the thousand pound head across the plant floor like a canon. Fortunately I was only several feet away from being in front of it, so I lived. Visual Basic had an interesting feature where malfunctions like that happened a lot.

That week, a copy of Redhat Linux 4.1 arrived in the mail. I installed it on my new laptop. It was crazy fast. It did everything I wanted. I compiled the kernel. I compiled everything. It could play mp3 music. And it was reliable. It was all fun and games until some years after the IPO. Google did the same thing. I would soon learn we had a term for this. #enshitification

So this is why I love free open source software and despise walled gardens of software companies. I remember #RMS on #UseNet was a bit crazy then, but he made the #GNU software license that made this possible.

That's my Linux story. And how #Microsoft almost killed me. Other people have #Microsoft horror stories, but this one was mine.

Happy 71st birthday, @rms! Thanks for GNU, the FSF, the GPL, and your tireless advocacy! Here's to celebrating the incredible impact you've made, and to many more years of the relentless pursuit of freedom. #RMS #FreeSoftware #FSF #GNU #SoftwareFreedom #GPL #Copyleft

Props to the Chief GNUisance Dr Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and creator of the philosophical scaffolding of software freedoms and copyleft.

Without his work, we wouldn't even have this decentralised space - powered 100% by Free Code (so far) - to argue about whether he deserves props. Arguably the net as we know it could not exist.

https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-against-richard-stallman.html

#RichardStallman #RMS #ChiefGNUisance #GNU #GNUProject #FSF #SoftwareFreedom #copyleft

#RMS (@rms)has found a good name for what used to be #twitter:

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#extwitter

Ingenious.