> a very uncomfortable place Like the back of a volkswagen? > In an interview with the student newspaper, the student decried, "I didn't think it would work!"

> a very uncomfortable place Like the back of a volkswagen? > In an interview with the student newspaper, the student decried, "I didn't think it would work!" This reminds me of an interview with RMS[1] Our way of dealing with kids coming in over Arpanet was to socialize them. We all participated in that. For example, there was a command you could type to tell the system to shut down in five minutes. The kids sometimes did that, and when they did we just cancelled the shutdown. They were amazed. They would read about this command and think, surely it’s not going to work, and would type it—and get an immediate notification: ‘The system is shutting down in five minutes because of . . . ’ We grow up with a lot of rules, and many people learn that the rules have no real force this way. You can literally do anything. The real question can become, would anyone want to be friends with someone who would do anything? We are social animals, so this idea should be important. Looking around the Internet, it seems like most people never "get it" though... [1]: https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to...