RMS Turns 50

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Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:20PM from the but-a-young-50 dept.

gnuhead writes "RMS is turning 50 on the 16th, according to this post in the FSF India mailing list. Some of the members have decided to give a birthday gift to RMS by celebrating March 16th to April 15th as 'GNU/Linux' month, and having a 'It's GNU/Linux dammit!' email sig. for this month. Happy birthday RMS!!!"

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Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

by DaBj ( 168491 ) writes: <(ten.jbad) (ta) (jbad)> on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:22PM (#5525434) Homepage Journal

GNU/Happy birthday.

(Sorry)

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Oh dear god... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:22PM (#5525436)

Most... trollable... story... ever.

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Now.. (Score:5, Funny)

by MisterFancypants ( 615129 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:22PM (#5525439)

Now I can refer to him as "a cranky old man" instead of just "a cranky man".
Happy GNU/Birthday you smelly hippie.

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Happy Birthday! (Score:5, Funny)

by huhmz ( 216967 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:24PM (#5525450)

RMS 5.0 released!
Sorry that's GNU/RMS 5.0 of course...

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Happy Birthday RMS (Score:5, Funny)

by BroncoInCalifornia ( 605476 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:24PM (#5525452)

He can be a pain in the ass, but he is our pain in the ass.

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50? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:25PM (#5525462)

Don't you mean GNU/50?

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how about... (Score:5, Funny)

by dh003i ( 203189 ) writes: <`dh003i' `at' `gmail.com'> on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:27PM (#5525473) Homepage Journal

Jeez, he's 50 already? That last pictures I saw of him made him look relatively young.

Anyways, how about for his birthday, we try to get HURD done sometime before the guy dies? Huh?

Maybe we can actually add the whole 4 extra characters and call it GNU/Linux instead of just Linux. Btw, RMS, I'm going to pronounce it G N U Linux, not Geenoo Linux, which sounds wierd. Sorry bout that one. Since GNU stands for GNU's not Linux, I prefer to speak it like I speak many other 3-letter abbreviations which don't sound good when spoken out phonetically: as letters (DOS is an exception).

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Who cares about decimal? (Score:5, Funny)

by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) ( 613870 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:29PM (#5525479) Journal

Now 64th birthday, that might be interesting. But 50 has few interesting properties besides being half of 10^2.

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Record Breaking News (Score:5, Funny)

by Mir322 ( 519212 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:33PM (#5525497)

The news of RMS 50.0 finally being released to public eyes stokes the hearts & minds of /. readers everywhere! Get in on the cyberspace street parties to be held all month! Look for free software and copies of free linux at your favorite FTP servers while supplies last!

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Re:50? (Score:5, Funny)

by worst_name_ever ( 633374 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:37PM (#5525515)

Or in Roman numerals, GNU/L!

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wait a second.... (Score:2, Funny)

by Mir322 ( 519212 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:38PM (#5525519)

You mean, RMS is a male ? *blinks, & slaps forehead* All these years .... *goes into shock*

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Re:how about... (Score:5, Funny)

by Theodore Logan ( 139352 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:39PM (#5525527)

Jeez, he's 50 already? That last pictures I saw of him made him look relatively young.

You're kidding, right? He's looked like 50 for 25 years at least.

Anyways, how about for his birthday, we try to get HURD done sometime before the guy dies? Huh?

After you, Sir.

Btw, RMS, I'm going to pronounce it G N U Linux, not Geenoo Linux, which sounds wierd.

How about making it Gentoo Linux [gentoo.org] instead? I can't recall anybody starting a flamewar about that.

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We should all chip in (Score:5, Funny)

by ShatteredDream ( 636520 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:41PM (#5525535) Homepage

and buy him a Dell PC running Windows XP, IIS, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio.NET and Internet Explorer!

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Re:Who cares about decimal? (Score:5, Funny)

by EvilNTUser ( 573674 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:41PM (#5525538)

"Now 64th birthday, that might be interesting. But 50 has few interesting properties besides being half of 10^2."

64? Damn, I didn't realize he was that old, it's a wonder he's alive... It feels like he was 31 just yesterday!

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why? (Score:5, Funny)

by mekkab ( 133181 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:45PM (#5525560) Homepage Journal

are you trying to ensure that he doesn't see 51?! ;)

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Re:Happy Birthday RMS (Score:5, Funny)

by Lieutenant_Dan ( 583843 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:46PM (#5525567) Homepage Journal

That is a bit of too much information for me.

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Re:Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

by joe_bruin ( 266648 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:50PM (#5525590) Homepage Journal

50, wow. i hope he lives to see a GNU/Hurd release.

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St. Patrick's Day (Score:3, Funny)

by kurosawdust ( 654754 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:58PM (#5525628)

In dual honor of RMS's birthday today and St. Patty's Day tomorrow, should we write some GNU/Limericks??
/dodges green tomatoes

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Does this mean... (Score:5, Funny)

by Shuh ( 13578 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:59PM (#5525635) Journal

he's going to start voting Republican?

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Re:Why not the FSF/Emacs/GCC/GDB month? (Score:5, Funny)

by GnuVince ( 623231 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:06PM (#5525667)

- no Emacs
Imagine no GNU/Emacs
I wonder if you can
No need for more ram
A brotherhood if vi
Imagine all the people
Editing with Vim

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License on Gifts (Score:5, Funny)

by evilviper ( 135110 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:08PM (#5525675) Journal

Okay Stallman... You can have this gift I bought for you, but you must allow everyone else that right as well. If anything prevents others from using it, you cannot make use of it either.

Maybe I should have gone for the LGPLed version, where you don't have to share, but you have to tell everyone everything they need to make one just like it.

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Re:Happy Birthday! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:13PM (#5525700)

And true to Open Source form, the release took 10 years and even at release the project is still full of bugs.

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Re:St. Patrick's Day (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:13PM (#5525703)

Ohhhhhhhh
My get-rich scheme is felled,
The copyright's unheld,
I acted too flippant
And used a code snippet
Now this limerick is GPL'ed!

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Re:Gosh.. (Score:4, Funny)

by Prowl ( 554277 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:16PM (#5525712)

Where would we be now if I had deleted RMS's gcc master!

i thinks its fair to say you probably wouldn't have been alive to post this.

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Re:Gosh.. (Score:5, Funny)

by tuxedo-steve ( 33545 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:24PM (#5525736)

It was late at night and I had typed 'rm gcc-1.17' instead of 'cd gcc-1.17'..
rm: setiathome: is a directory

Thank god that cd doesn't have a recursive switch.

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Re:Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

by rtscts ( 156396 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:34PM (#5525779)

Happy birthday to GNU, happy birthday to GNU...

.
.
.

youlooklikeamonkeyandsmelllikeonetoo.

*SMACK*

Doh.

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Re:GNU/Linux, fah! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:41PM (#5525811)

Just remember, Linus (the roof making Finnish kid you talk about) didn't even originally brand the kernel as Linux. He named it Freax. Get your facts [cbbrowne.com] right.

On the other hand, GNU/Freax sounds more appropriate.

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Google to become Gnuugle? (Score:3, Funny)

by jerryasher ( 151512 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:48PM (#5525869)

Google to become Gnuugle?
Slashdot to become GNUSlashdot?

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Re:St. Patrick's Day (Score:4, Funny)

by DTC ( 450482 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @08:56PM (#5525913)

*gives it a shot:*

There was a young man named Stallman
whose political views some find apallin'
he wrote some free code
and on his coattails more rode
now there's tons of free software for all men!

*ducks*

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Re:But his biography says his b-day is the 18th (Score:3, Funny)

by Erris ( 531066 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @09:10PM (#5525986) Homepage Journal

Shhh, don't tell anyone and we can have a surprise party.

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I hope... (Score:2, Funny)

by mcmay ( 59905 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @09:23PM (#5526043) Homepage

he uses the power of the most powerful lobby [aarp.org] in the country, composed of people of similarly advanced, uh, stature, and gets them to push for free software.

Come on. Picture it. GNU/Raging Grannies. You know you want to.

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Happy 50th Anniversary of RMS Release 1.0 (Score:4, Funny)

by iggymanz ( 596061 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @09:24PM (#5526049)

Hey, let's call it LinGNUx...that really rolls off the tongue. Happy Birthday Richard! You're whacky , but we love you! Your compiler liberated software for everyone! Much thanks for that & all the utilities! Ralph -- Let's call it LinGNUx

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Best way to celebrate RMS (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @09:52PM (#5526168)

Today would make a great day to join the "GNU Full-Name Project". Following in the footsteps of distributed computing projects like "seti@home", the goal of the GNUFNP is to calculate the full recursive name of the GNU project.

Right now we're at:

((((((((((((((((((((GNU's Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux) Not Linux)

Okay, so we're not very far... it's our first day!

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Can't you people finish the name? (Score:2, Funny)

by enos ( 627034 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @10:26PM (#5526307)

Which Royal Mail Ship are you talking about?

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Gift (Score:2, Funny)

by Samus ( 1382 ) writes: on Sunday March 16, 2003 @11:43PM (#5526602) Journal

I think I'll send him a copy of windows for his birthday.

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Re:GNU/Linux, fah! (Score:4, Funny)

by einhverfr ( 238914 ) writes: <chris.travers@g m a i l.com> on Monday March 17, 2003 @01:04AM (#5526947) Homepage Journal

Personally, I don't care what other people call it - I call it "unix", and everybody seems to get the idea :)

But GNU's Not UNIX!!!!!

Sorry, had to say it ;)

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Re:The best present you can give, to him and yours (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 17, 2003 @07:10AM (#5527965)

No, for the creation of Emacs he should pay his users for all the RAM they have had to buy over the years.

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it's my party (Score:3, Funny)

by Ender Ryan ( 79406 ) writes: <MONET minus painter> on Monday March 17, 2003 @11:05AM (#5528858) Journal

It's my party
and I'll politic if I want to
politic if I want to...

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Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

Oh dear god... (Score:4, Funny)

Now.. (Score:5, Funny)

Happy Birthday! (Score:5, Funny)

Happy Birthday RMS (Score:5, Funny)

50? (Score:1, Funny)

how about... (Score:5, Funny)

Who cares about decimal? (Score:5, Funny)

Record Breaking News (Score:5, Funny)

Re:50? (Score:5, Funny)

wait a second.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:how about... (Score:5, Funny)

We should all chip in (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Who cares about decimal? (Score:5, Funny)

why? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Happy Birthday RMS (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

St. Patrick's Day (Score:3, Funny)

Does this mean... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Why not the FSF/Emacs/GCC/GDB month? (Score:5, Funny)

License on Gifts (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Happy Birthday! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:St. Patrick's Day (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Gosh.. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Gosh.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Had to say it.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:GNU/Linux, fah! (Score:1, Funny)

Google to become Gnuugle? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:St. Patrick's Day (Score:4, Funny)

Re:But his biography says his b-day is the 18th (Score:3, Funny)

I hope... (Score:2, Funny)

Happy 50th Anniversary of RMS Release 1.0 (Score:4, Funny)

Best way to celebrate RMS (Score:1, Funny)

Can't you people finish the name? (Score:2, Funny)

Gift (Score:2, Funny)

Re:GNU/Linux, fah! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:The best present you can give, to him and yours (Score:1, Funny)

it's my party (Score:3, Funny)

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