tomhudson's Journal: If it's Tuesday ... this must be 10 more RMS jokes ...

for those who missed the first batch.

They still don't match the tastelessness of his remarks about Steve Jobs, but seeing as this is Troll Tuesday ...

The new Nerd Dictionary example of recursion: You know how you have to take some people to an event twice - the first to attend it, the second to apologize? Recursion is what happens when you try that with RMS.

RMS is now getting into open-source hardware. First up, an open-source micro-wave. You too can own an empty cardboard box from the Fukuyama Nuclear Power Plant.

Q. Why does RMS hate Oracle's Java?
A. He thinks the garbage collector has it in for him.

Q. Why doesn't RMS use Gold Bond medicated foot powder?
A. Because it's finger-lickin' good!

Q. Why doesn't RMS use toilet paper?
A. Because he *likes* to raise a big stink!
A2. It's part of the infrastucture for his own personal "cloud".
A3. ... ask Colonel Sanders ...

Q. Why do hotels ban him from the pool?
A. The Coast Guard won't send an oil skimmer afterward.

Q. Why did RMS make the tasteless Steve Jobs remarks in the first place?
A. Because when you don't have enough enemies to feed your paranoia, crowd-source it!

Q. Why does RMS hate the iPhone?
A. When he enters "5318008" and turns it upside-down, it rights itself.

RMS went into WallyWorld to buy some new underwear. The clerk suggested he buy 7 pairs, one for every day of the week. RMS picked up a 6-pack. "January, February, March ..."
Suppressing a shudder, the clerk said "So you'll be wanting 2 6-packs?" "No, by the time July rolls around, I'll just turn January inside-out."

Q. How many jokes abou RMS are there?
A. One - the rest are true.

Amusing Ad Hominems

[logical_failure]

... would be a shame if someone were to get motivated to tell similar tacky jokes about you.

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[tomhudson]

First, I think with this batch I've done what I set out to do wrt jokes, which was to shake a few people out of their complacency. Any more, and it'll become predictable, hence boring. I also like to think there's a few important differences. For starters ...

1. I don't go around p*ssing on open graves.
2. I don't say that everyone who disagrees with me is evil, and it's okay to steal from them, and to encourage others to do so.
3. I make an effort to see both sides of the coin (well, maybe not wrt bitcoin - bu

I see you've met ...

[damn_registrars]

TomHudson, meet my dedicated troll. Almost as much fun as watching reruns of Roseanne. If you're up for a challenge, see if you can convince my dedicated troll that you are actually me. Some other people have already pulled that off (as seen by his signature), do you have what it takes to join their ranks?

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[logical_failure]

The thing is, I believe that programmers have a right to use whatever license works for them without being automatically "evil."

I agree... writing code is what pays my bills.

I just thought that the ad hominem attacks on RMS were necessary, when you are capable enough of using pure logic to deconstruct his arguments.

the distros aren't trying to answer the real need of the majority of users - to run their existing programs.

This is really a chicken and egg problem, Babs. Companies aren't porting com

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[tomhudson]

I agree with the whole "chicken and egg" problem, but you'd think that if the distros really wanted to have an impact and grow the market, they would spend more time on getting non-native programs to run. Even the codeweavers project is a decade or more behind ... and wine

Instead, they spend their days messing around with the user interface. Re-arranging the UI is about as effective as re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic was - it gives the dominant players time to get their act together.

I can't thin

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[logical_failure]

On User Interfaces.... it's not that it's re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic... if you can come up with a new UI that works (which I give Apple all the credit in the world for on their touch screen devices) then new Applications will spring up that support / exploit this new interface.

So "new" ideas like say the desktop widgets in KDE 4 are not bad in and of itself.

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[tomhudson]

The example you gave has one fatal flaw - it only works with existing users :-( It does nothing to break down the #1 barrier to linux adoption by the masses - they cannot run *their* programs.

Linux has its uses - I use it every day. However, for the masses, it's cheaper for them to just pay the Microsoft Tax or Apple Tax every 3-4 years than it is to futz around with linux and hassle with Microsoft for a $50 rebate on the OS - then find that they need to go out and buy a retail copy anyway because at s

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[tomhudson]

Wow. The guy's a regular Hitler ...

Funny how he wants them to push people buying his books - so much for "free".