[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]][[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]][[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]Please pardon my delay in replying. I have got so backlogged over thepast two months that I just saw the message you sent me on Sep 29.Praying doesn't affect cancer, but I appreciate your concern for myhealth. I had drug treatments this summer and my lymphoma is now inremission. My doctor expects I can live with this lymphome for adecade or more, but this depends stopping Republicans from destroyingMedicare, which paid for most of the cost of the treatments.That gives you an opprtunity right now to help me in a crucial,practical way -- and help millions of other non-rich Americans -- bytelling your congresscritter and your senators to protect Medicare,Social Security and Medicaid. Please phone their offices today! > Also, do you have any thoughts to share on proprietary MRNA > versus open source? I avoided the vaccines precisely because they're > proprietary code.I have to point out that I never advocated "open source software".What I advocate is "free software". Those two ideas are fundamentallydifferent -- "open source software" is based on practical concernsonly, By contrsat "free software" is based on moral concerns.See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.htmlfor more explanation of the difference between free software and opensource. See also https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler forEvgeny Morozov's article on the same point.(continued next post...)
mRNA and software are very different kinds of things. Everyone shouldbe free to chsnge and redistribute software, but mRNA vaccines arepharmaceuticals and we don't want to let anyone make and distributethem without FDA certification.However, I advocate eliminating patents especislly in he fieldsof medicine, agriculture and software. Seehttps://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf.But please don't reject mRNA vaccines. They can save your life, orsave you from long Covid which is a fate worse than death.They are not 100% effective -- you might catch Covid-19 anyway -- soit is a good idea to wear an N95 mask when you are in an enclosedspace with other people. I always do! As far as I know I have neverhad Covid-19, and my precautions are surely part of the reason whynot.-- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Ask him his opinion on fucking teenagers
me too once a long time agosent the sicp ascii meme snektold me he doesn't need to read sicp because emacs king but he likes the snakenot those exact words
>>106437190What wild take are you expecting? It’s already legal from age 14 in places like Italy and Germany (to name but a few).
>>106437176>we don't want to let anyone make and distribute them without FDA certificationHe avoided the question, which is whether or not they should be "open source," and not Free.
>>106437228Do this.
>>106437201Based.
DOMINATE CUTE LITTLE GIRLS!!!!
>>106437190YHWH allows child brides.The world was made by him.Just as the free C compiler was made by RMS.>>"The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.">>>>RMS on June 28th, 2003 https://stallman.org/archives/2003-mar-jun.html>>>>-------------------------->>>>"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. ">>>>RMS on June 5th, 2006) https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%202006%20(Dutch%20paedophiles%20form%20political%20party>>>>-------------------------->>>>" There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.>>>>Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realize they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. That's not willing participation, it's imposed participation, a different issue. ">>>>RMS on Jan 4th, 2013) https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#04_January_2013_(Pedophilia
>>106437228Can you ask him to live 50 more years and sue Grsecurity please, and explain that it's destroyed the Code-For-Code expectation we were all taught about 25 years ago in the big push for getting us all to code free software / opensource at 12/13 yrs old.
>>106437354wtf I love stallman now
>>106437228Can you ask him to live 50 more years and sue Grsecurity please, and explain that it's destroyed the Code-For-Code expectation we were all taught about 25 years ago in the big push for getting us all to code free software / opensource at 12/13 yrs old.There's no reason for children and young adults to sign on the opensource/free-software if their "GPL'd" code isn't going to result in getting the edits back. Grsecurity adds a no-redistribution codicil. No one will sue them. Excuses are constantly given. We were told, as children and young adults, that we were all in this together and we would each work on our section of the greater OS and it would all be protected by the GPL.Grsecurity violates the GCC copyrights too, not only the linux copyrights. There are 1000s of linux copyright holders: each of whom could sue: and they could be joined in a suit, perhaps with GCC too.
>>106437372We're told by christians and feminists to hate him for that. He got canceled for those posts.
>>106437402what happens if I'm a christian but love him for that?
>>106437176>But please don't reject mRNA vaccines. They can save your life, or>save you from long Covid which is a fate worse than death.>a fate worse than death.>worse than death.RMS is laying it on pretty thick here. WORSE than death? Really?
>>106437411Then you're not a Marconite Christian.In reality: the views of Marcone of Sinope are the majority now in white countries: Old Testament God is seen as evil and an adversary, and Jesus is seen as someone who wiped away the old testament law. The "millstone" parable is seen as a law that means kill pedos and ban child brides. Women are permitted to commit adultery because "no stone woman", men are to dig their eyes out for looking at a woman, and removal of men's genitals is seen as a good thing because of matthew 19, greek (chop off dick and balls for heaven)
BUMP!!!!!
>>106437168>Praying doesn't affect cancer, but I appreciate your concern for my healthbased but polite. a true gentlemanif trump kills him then i will be seething
Hello, Mike. Did you know that I pray every single day for your sudden death? Thank you for reading.Sincerely, your #1 hater.
>>106437190Kek
>>106437168mailed RMS without knowing the difference between open source and free software, pretty embarrassing. i wish this man good health and i wish zoomers like you would stop bothering this man.
>>106437176>Everyone should>be free to chsnge and redistribute software, but mRNA vaccines are>pharmaceuticals and we don't want to let anyone make and distribute>them without FDA certification.So ALL software should be free without exception, but this doesn't apply to vaccines for no reason?Cool philosophy dude
>>106437168>created what has now become the de-facto UNIX implementation for most use cases>Torvalds is a corpo sellout so he gets all the credit and funding for Stallman's work>depends in Medicaid to pay for his cancer treatment even though his life's work is worth billions of dollars>replies to a personal email and brings up the financial issues to treat his cancer>instead of using it an excuse to ask for donations he instead asks for people to do what they can so Medicaid can continue to assist him and othersHow can anyone hate this guy? Even at his lowest he sacrifices and puts the needs of others before his own.>>106437236>>106440527He already said he opposes open source on moral grounds. He doesn't think making a copy of pharmaceuticals and redistributing them without FDA approval is moral, so he doesn't advocate for that.>but he thinks everything should be free!No he doesn't. He thinks software is a tool just like a hammer, a screwdriver or a spatula. He believes that once a person buys a liece of software that person should be allowed to study, modify, lend or redistribute it just like he can study, modify, lend or redistribute a screwdriver after purchasing it.He has never advocated for making everything available free of charge nor that everything should be redistributable freely, only code.
>>106437416 My memory's become complete shit after covid, dunno if it's even possible to train it back to normal capacity
>>106440527>>106437236Isn't the MRNA vaccine already Open Source? It's not free because it's patented and not copylefted, but the genome sequence is out there in public. There is no higher level "language" in genetics than that, so it is pretty much open source. As open source as the vaccine's "developers" themselves had.It's like if I write a program directly in binary machine code (which I have done). The compiled executable is the source in that case.
>>106437168RMS is 100% right. Only jew I actually like. Anyone else can fuck off including and specially jew worshiping spiritual semites!
>>106437228The age of consent is 16 in most states in USA as well
>>106440852>He doesn't think making a copy of pharmaceuticals and redistributing them without FDA approval is moral,So why is this immoral but copying software is moral? What's the fundamental difference?
>>106441098>congresscritter
