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I remember reading that Richard Stallman uses a program that grabs webpages via a remote command, which are then emailed to him. A side effect of this, I suppos
by RexRollman 13y ago
I remember reading that Richard Stallman uses a program that grabs webpages via a remote command, which are then emailed to him. A side effect of this, I suppose, would be that he could have an archive of everything he read and wanted to keep.
- pain 13y agoI would love it, to remember too. If I had a Save button, my Start button would have a balance. I could live without Save as.. & upload-into-proprietary-backup if my operating system could just remember better. We need to remember more. If we need to save forever press Archive / Email / Save. I need that command.
- devcpp 13y agoHe usually mentions that this is for personal reasons that only apply to himself. No tinfoil hat here (at least not openly). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsing http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsin...
- gwern 13y agoHe could, but I've never seen him mention preserving the files (as opposed to downloading to /tmp), and given how much he travels and how he sometimes loses/has his laptop stolen, it may not do him much good long-term anyway.