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There's a funny tyler1 quote (popular LoL streamer) about how oftentimes he meets fans and they'll say something like "Haha remember that time I won this game a

There's a funny tyler1 quote (popular LoL streamer) about how oftentimes he meets fans and they'll say something like "Haha remember that time I won this game against you doing this?" He responds absolutely not, you will always remember that game as the one time you won against someone famous, for me it was like any other day being famous. Seeing an entire thread of people not just being petty, but dogpiling onto a five minute conversation that happened in 2001 gives me the same sort of feeling. There is absolutely no way RMS remembers or cares about this one dude giggling to himself over this !GNU operating system. It would be much funnier if Twitter wasn't completely incapable of chilling for five seconds.

jlkuester7 5y ago
This was basically my original take on the tweet. But after reading the whole thread, there is quite a bit more to the story that makes it interesting (to me at least). Dunking on RMS in one 5min conversation is only slightly amusing. But getting publicly harangued by RMS for something petty, then spending the next year assembling a working Linux system with no GNU software (which required personally writing some of the parts), all for the purposes of catching RMS in his pettiness the next year, that is a pretty cool story. Still mostly about 1-upping someone in their pettiness, but at least real effort was put into it! :) As an aside, the "I am going to build this just because I can" attitude is one of my favorite parts of software development. The barriers to entry are so low and the field of possibilities is so wide that it is really fun to see what folks come up with (and hack on stuff myself). Even if 90% of everything is crap...