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> In the first Patlabor movie E. Hoba, the author of the Labor virus, graduated from MIT, and one or two mentions were made of efforts by people at MIT to eradi
by livueta 3y ago
> In the first Patlabor movie E. Hoba, the author of the Labor virus, graduated from MIT, and one or two mentions were made of efforts by people at MIT to eradicate the virus.
Reminds me of the time I wrote RMS an email telling him he should watch that, as a parable on the importance of using free software in public-works infrastructure. He said it looked really good but that he'd have to try to find a copy on VHS.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoI love how I know RMS = Richard M Stallman, but my brain always auto expands it to Root Mean Squared first. Definitely up there in the divine rankings of the three letter acronyms of old.
- neilv 3y agoRMS is not at all mean.
- bheadmaster 3y agoTry to use GPL-licensed software in your proprietary software without releasing it under GPL. You'll see how mean he is.
- Tor3 3y agoWhy shouldn't he? If you do, you're breaking the license.
- bheadmaster 3y agoOf course he should, but I was attempting to make a joke, since I thought that the parent comment was also a joke (word play on two meanings of the word "mean"). Apparently I failed. Sorry.
- yungporko 3y agoi found it funny
- guitarlimeo 3y ago[flagged]
- subtra3t 3y agoComments like yours are usually only found on Reddit.
- bheadmaster 3y agoSorry, I forgot that fun is not allowed [0] on HN. [0] https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Ud56244PvzUMGoMCMCPAMAHaHw https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Ud56244PvzUMGoMCMCPAMAHaHw
- menacingly 3y agoI think the point is that places exist for jokes that don't add anything, so we can just go do that there, rather than changing the definition of what this is
- bheadmaster 3y agoNowhere in the guidelines [0] does it say "do not post jokes that don't add anything". It does, however, say: Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Phiwise_ 3y agoBecause he built his career on "freedom" advocacy? Doesn't he support pirating ebooks? Didn't he plagiarize, then just copy, emacs source? Turnabout's fair play.
- npsomaratna 3y agoFor whatever reason, I've always associated the acronym "RMS" with Stallman. (Even though I have no idea what the "M" in his name is.) I then immediately think of the famous "Stallman Jesus" photo. In the '90s (or early 2000's?), I remember seeing a photo of Stallman Jesus on the left arrayed against Bill Gates on the right, with Stallman being the figurehead for the open-source coalition arrayed against the might of Microsoft. I've not been able to find that photo since though.
- tmtvl 3y ago> Even though I have no idea what the "M" in his name is. Matthew, which goes well with his moniker of Saint IGNUcius.
- saghm 3y agoFor some reason, I immediately thought "Milhous" when I read the parent comment, and then after seeing your response, it took me a moment to realize that somehow got confused with Richard Nixon.
- temp0826 3y agoHe should really change his first name to "RMS" to make it another recursive acronym.
- gumby 3y agoLong ago (a decade or more before the GNU manifesto) he would sometimes sign his name as the root of the square, in ascii art.
- throwaway_08932 3y agoI guess this habit wasn't deeply rooted, else we'd still see him doing it. /joke
- throwaway_08932 3y agoFor me, whenever people mentioned CRT monitors my mind always first went to "Chinese remainder theorem."
- Citizen_Lame 3y agoThat's a cool story. What did RMS think about QGF?