John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation: “Were it grounded in reality, Oracle’s claim that copyright law gives them proprietary control over any software that uses a particular functional API would be terrible for free software and programmers everywhere. It is an unethical and greedy interpretation created with the express purpose of subjugating as many computer users as possible, and is particularly bad in this context because it comes at a time when the sun has barely set on the free software community’s celebration of Java as a language newly suitable for use in the free world. Fortunately, the claim is not yet reality, and we hope Judge Alsup will keep it that way.” Couldn’t agree more.
Further proof that FSF and Stallman are batshit crazy, spreading their fundamentalist dogmatic ideology. The GPL is evil because it forces you to share, even if you don’t use GPL. How dare the FSF fight for freedoms instead of being more corporate friendly.
* This is sarcasm, and a summary of anti-FSF comments I have encountered on OSAlert.
well to be honest, Stallman is batshit crazy
Unless you are Richard Stallman, how can you “be honest” about Richard Stallman? Stallman is an uber-nerd and behaves like what you would expect from unsocial types. Other than that, what is it about Stallman that makes him supposedly “batshit” crazy? Do you know what’s batshit crazy? Oracle’s claims. This alone vindicates Stallman, if we forget all the other crazy corporate shit that previously vindicated his views.
There’s quite a bit of evidence out there that he’s batshit crazy, he’s not just another nerd.
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public…
As for Oracle, they’re no different than any other big corporation.
Google is no better no matter how much they preach “don’t be evil”. Although Thom conveniently ignores this, Motorola (cough Google) is attacking everyone right and left using FRAND patents. They’re all looking after their own good and Google is probably the worse one of all.
http://photos.appleinsider.com/lobbying-120509.jpg
I keep seeing this claim, and when people are pushed to provide the evidence, the only “evidence” is a misunderstanding of the GPL, and a misconception of terms like “freedom” and “ideology” and “pragmatic”.
What are you talking about?
bowkota just gave you a bucketload of crazy to look into. Follow the link and have a good laugh.
What am I talking about? What are YOU and bowkota and your fellow hate-Stallman-at-all-costs talking about?
The link is proof of my statement that Stallman is just an uber-nerd with no social sensitivities. If that link is you and bowkota’s criteria for “batshit crazy”, then it proves I am right about this hate-Stallman-at-all-costs mentality.
* I consider the complaints about Samsung SIII “monstrosity” as much more diva-ish and crazy than Stallman’s demands.
Edited 2012-05-10 05:42 UTC
Haha, that was a very funny email. He is a funny guy! He know how he like stuff and gets tired of people asking him the same questions over and over.
Maybe he is socially inept, peculiar and slightly neurotic, but not batshit insane.
And apparently he likes parrots
This is the most rational thing i’ve read in the discussion (which the Apple troll successfully pivoted the topic to) about Stallman’s mental state. Stallman *may* be suffering from Aspergers Syndrome which is generally associated with social ineptness and genius like abilities. A person that typically speaks their mind regardless of who’s feelings get hurt. They are usually uncannily truthful about their feelings and that sometimes rubs people the wrong way. I would wager to bet that Stallman is much smarter by an order of magnitude and has accomplished exponentially more for and in his life than bowkota the troll that’s claiming he’s batshit crazy
From what little I read of Thom’s it’s more apparent that rabid anti-Thom fanatics conveniently ignores all the things he writes more than Thom ignores facts.
As for Google’s lobbying… what exactly are they lobbying for?
I like how Apple nuts like to pick the first big number they come across to explain anything, instead of dissecting what those figures mean. Forget about reality distortion, Apple nuts are actually into voodoo and numerology*.
* Here’s a hint: just because you use numbers does not mean you are using those numbers correctly.
Let me use the numbers correctly
They’re lobbying for world peace, hence their motto Don’t be evil.
Edited 2012-05-10 06:15 UTC
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Net%20Ne…
Yes, it is Google’s own blog so what is in there must be taken with a bag of salt.
But seriously, you proved that you are mentally unfit for any rational conversation, picking up magic numbers and making voodoo interpretations – “ooh, $500K is less that $5M, therefore Google is Satan incarnate”.
I wasn’t the one crying about lobbying being evil in every-other thread, that was Thom, You should be directing your issues about lobbying to him.
I wasn’t the one crying about lobbying being evil in every-other thread, that was Thom, You should be directing your issues about lobbying to him. [/q]
So, basically, you follow Thom around in every thread, and bring him up in every conceivable discussion and cherry picking what Thom writes in order to preserve this mental image you have of Thom.
Stallman is weird. I think you’re batshit crazy.
I would take offence in that but considering that you’ve defended lobbying and Stallman in this thread, it sort of nullifies anything you have to say.
Where have I defended lobbying? What I argued was that you brought up magic numbers to conclude that Google was more evil than Apple (in order to paint your mental image of Thom being biased).
I also don’t defend Stallman. I attack irrational attacks on Stallman to what tantamounts to cyber stalking every weird thing that Stallman does and using that to attack the FSF and certain licenses.
You are not a logical person, are you?
I guess I’m wrong about Thom.
He preaches the evils of lobbying, yet when there’s an article showing Google spending way more than anyone of else he’s suddenly silent on the matter.
He preaches the evils of software patents yet when Motorola abuses FRAND patents time and time again (hint they’re owned by Google) he’s also silent on it. And when he decides to pick up the topic (Xbox case) the focus is surprisingly on H264 and not the actual issue at hand: Google, sorry I meant Motorola, abusing FRAND patents to hurt a competitor.
Edited 2012-05-10 06:33 UTC
Silent? You mean all the explanations he gives in comments (at least those I’ve come across)? I can’t believe the level of obsessionou have against people you hate irrationally. Just let it go.
What, you mean like this?
http://www.osnews.com/story/25864/Under_scrutiny_Google_spends_reco…
Yup. Totally silent about it. Yep. Really.
This is what we call confirmation bias, bowkota. You simply ignore articles that don’t fit into your world view of “Thom = anti-Apple/pro-Google”, so it leads to rather embarrassing situations where you submit something negative about Google which I then delete because it;s already been posted, and then you go on assuming I deleted it because I’m pro-Google.
I hope this serves as an eye opener.
Edited 2012-05-10 06:48 UTC
I guess I missed that, my mistake, sorry about that.
Although I’m starting to have doubts myself…..people in here are actually advocating lobbying.
No, you’re not sorry. You didn’t have the intellectual honesty to get a clear picture of someone in the first place.
Exactly how does that make him batshit crazy. By no means do I agree with the man or the GPL (and that list is certainly a bit overwhelming) but batshit crazy? No, he’s not.
I’m sure it’s nice for organizers to know all his quirks and oddities *before* booking him.
Chanting “Developers Developers Developers”, now there’s something akin to batshit crazy.
Edited 2012-05-10 06:09 UTC
You’re right he just has a few quirks and oddities just like any other person, a regular Joe just like you or any one else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Wow. You just showed the lengths rabid people like you go to preserve an irrational hatred of someone and end up with an increasingly widening definition of what constitutes “batshit crazy”.
Basically, if you’re an uber-nerd with absolutely no social skills, then that’s enough to be labelled as batshit crazy. Were you a nerd at school bowkota? Did you get bullied for it? If so, then you are arguing that you deserved it. Batshit crazy indeed.
I’ve worked helping people with actual mental conditions in the past.
This guy picks up things off of his feet and puts then in his mouth. He believes all the things in that link and everything else on his blog:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public…
He Chooses to be that way and he chooses to believe those things.
THAT is what makes him batshit crazy and if you find that this is not irregular than good for you.
Maybe next time he’s in town you should accommodate him for a couple of days, see how you feel after.
Another brilliant definion: irregular = batshit crazy.
Did I say Stallman was regular? Did I not say previously that I think Stallman was an uber-nerd with no social sensitivities? What part of that made you conclude that I think Stallman is regular?
Jeez, no wonder you defend Apple reflexively. They are the ultimate purveyors of conformity and you just argued that Stallman is batshit crazy for being highly irregular.
Congratulations.
Yeap the issue here is that
irregular ^a‰ batshit crazy
It’s not an issue for me. You were the one who argued Stallman was batshit crazy for being irregular.
I myself never said Stallman was a normal person.
From the above term, you inferred that I thought you considered Stallman a normal person? I hope it was something else I said and no this otherwise…
From the above term, you inferred that I thought you considered Stallman a normal person? I hope it was something else I said and no this otherwise… [/q]
You do know this conversation extends further into the past than that “one term”.
Fuck, you are batshit crazy. You have insane definitions, you stalk Stallman and Thom, and you can’t remember anything you say/write half an hour ago.
English isn’t my native speaking language however I think you’ve misinterpreted the term stalking.
Furthermore, instead of posting random arguments about things mentioned in this thread, you could use a quote for reference.
You’re probably having a hard time detecting sarcasm.
PS: To the more intelligent readers, I’ve always admitted that I’m a fan of Apple as a company and the products they make. The same applies to a certain car company called BMW. That of course means that I’m not always the right person to judge them when they do something “wrong” (who determines what’s right or wrong?) and I’ve never advocated the opposite.
My issue is with people who paint themselves as being unbiased and go around judging everyone else without being accountable for their actions. I don’t think there’s a need to name and shame.
I’m pretty sure I once came across a comment by Thom saying that he never considers himself as unbiased, though I could be wrong.
However, you are obviously obsessed with what Thom thinks to the point of bringing over your irrational hate from thread to thread about Thom about a completely nonexistent problem. That is basically cyberstalking.
There’s an enormous difference between having a disgusting bad habit and being batshit crazy.
Heck, as far as I can tell this has happened only once. Raise your hand if you’ve never done something stupid and disgusting in public by mistake. Congratulations, you are all batshit crazy.
Some consider that picking your nose, chewing your nails and scratching your genitalia to alleviate an itch in public is disguising. In some countries belching is acceptable and in others it’s considered very rude.
More: I’m fairly certain some of yours or mine regular habits could be found disgusting by quite a few people. NVM possibly random quirks (but it’s telling how bowkota bases on something like this his efforts to disparage Dr Stallman)
Plus, from how it looks, it might as well be a simple case of (series of) automatisms that went haywire.
He was clearly focused, immersed in the conversation going on …OK, so he happened to pick something from his feet at the time. OK, so he has eaten a small object he’s holding in a particular way in his hand. What we must realize: it’s entirely possible those two actions were two separate background tasks, not really conscious processes, that got combined in an unfortunate way.
We all do this. Simplest example is when we get to some room and don’t know why we went there in the first place.
Heck, a buddy of mine once wanted to throw out garbage and get some food in a shop nearby. It ended with him throwing the purchase into garbage container, and putting garbage on the kitchen table…
And while it’s not 100% reliable, it’s also good that we often operate on such level – otherwise our minds would get swamped with what are, in reality, just constant background tasks that we pay little attention to.
BTW, not far every-other-part-of-the-body tends to be more hygienic than hands, and biting peels of skin from them (around nails and such) seems socially acceptable.
Even though it’s kind-of ew… You will not believe how many oddities each person has. The most well discussed and analysed if the fast that every single person on this planet has a sexual fetish.
A “regular Joe” is much more irregular than you might imagine.
There’s a very well defined cut-off point for “batshit crazy”.
If someone believes either one or more of:
1) 9/11 truthers
2) Moon landing “hoax”
3) 2012
Who knows, maybe Stallman does believe one of those. But I don’t think that’s out there at the moment.
Anything less than any of those three is not “batshit crazy”, and they’re mildly batshit crazy. True batshit crazy are the Phelps from the Westboro church. In between are the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Glenn Becks and Ann Coulters of this world.
There’s quite a bit of evidence out there that he’s batshit crazy, he’s not just another nerd.
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public…
As for Oracle, they’re no different than any other big corporation.
Google is no better no matter how much they preach “don’t be evil”. Although Thom conveniently ignores this, Motorola (cough Google) is attacking everyone right and left using FRAND patents. They’re all looking after their own good and Google is probably the worse one of all.
http://photos.appleinsider.com/lobbying-120509.jpg [/q]
What ridiculous drivel you spew there. Who did Google attack with FRAND Patents. As for Motorola… you neglected to mention that Microsoft and Apple started this sleazy war over software-patents by suing world + dog over trivial and dubious software patents that should have never been filed and should have never been granted such as swiping on a frigging screen and rendering text before images for god’s sake. Any use of FRAND patents to COUNTERSUE these sleaze-balls is FAIR GAME. Microsoft, Apple and Oracle are using sleazy software-patents to create an atmosphere where you CANNOT sit down at your computer and write system code without worrying about them coming to claim ownership of your frigging code that they did not write through the use of broad and obvious software-patents. And you come here spewing these Apple PR talking points. Self destructive much? You may not want or care to learn how write system code but it doesn’t mean your hero Apple should be the only one allowed to write any system code. You bring to mind those that faithfully go out every election and vote for a particular political party against their own interests because of skillfully propagated propaganda/PR.
Crazy? That’s not crazy. That’s very sane, but very detailed and specific requirement list.
Crazy is when JLo slaps the maid in Boscolo(Rome) for the wrong kind of flowers… even though she did not request specific flowers.
RMS just seems to be very experienced with that and does not want to waste anyone’s time or resources if the inviting party does not agree to something.
I wouldn’t say “batshit” crazy but more like seriously deluded.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Oct-05.html
There’s more to be found using your favourite search engine. GNU/RMS is an amusing fella. As much as I dislike cults, like the GNU/F$F clowns, they bring a certain comedy value to the internet.
And yet, Oracle et al are pretty much doing what F$F clowns said they will do. People like you are Neville Chamberlain reincarnated. At least the FSF are doing something about this stupidity from Oracle.