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Worth linking to Richard Stallman's rider: https://gizmodo.com/please-do-not-buy-richard-stallman-a-parrot-and-other-r-5853729 https://gizmodo.com/please-do-not

• teddyh 5y ago
  At least Richard Stallman is an actual celebrity, of sorts, and goes on lecture tours. Have you seen the riders of big bands? They are formatted exactly the same way; do this, don’t do this, etc. People who have never seen these kinds of documents assume instead a personal relationship context, where this kind of language would be horrifying. But this would be assuming a personal relationship, where this is instead aimed at more business-like relationship of hoster and featured speaker. This document should be compared to the likes of “no brown M&Ms”.