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That fact is well known. If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian, would you be upset at the speaker, or the idiot who hired him?
by Duff 15y ago
That fact is well known.
If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian, would you be upset at the speaker, or the idiot who hired him?
- hugh3 15y agoIt's well known within a certain rather narrow community of people. The folks who booked him may just have read his name on a list of "vaguely important people who are willing to give speeches".
- fleitz 15y agoIf your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian but spit in people's faces when they extended their hand for a handshake, would you be upset at the speaker or the idiot who hired him? RMS lacks basic social graces. He preaches to the choir but somehow still manages to piss them off with pedantic shit like GNU/Linux. Why doesn't he just copyright it so he can plaster the GNU logo all over everything and be done with it.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian but spit in people's faces when they extended their hand for a handshake, would you be upset at the speaker or the idiot who hired him?" If their spitting was common knowledge, as RMS's eccentricities are, then yes. Of course I would be upset primary with whoever booked them...
- wnight 15y ago> He preaches to the choir but somehow still manages to piss them off with pedantic shit like GNU/Linux. Maybe, just maybe, you aren't in the choir. I'm only saying this because you dismiss things many people find important.