FortKnox's Journal: RMS, Please Read

Hehehehe...

Ya know, utopias look great on paper, but not necessarily in practice.

Free as a hobby? Sure!
Free as supporting a family? I'm not willing to try it, are you?

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[jeffy124]

does rms read slashdot? A quick search [slashdot.org] turns up a few possible usernames, but that aint always trustworthy. maybe the real rms could provide a gpg signiture on a post (or better yet, his /. bio) to verify the real rms username.

Re:q...

[jeffy124]

in regards to your GNU/Slashdot remark, check out this post i made a while back: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23553&threshol d=0&cid=2541889 [slashdot.org]

Re:a comment about michael sims....

[FortKnox]

ROFL! Nice one :-)

FortKnox'ed?

[TechnoLust]

Penny Arcade is CRAWLING! Usually, you don't see something get /.'ed unless it is on the front page. Does Josh have THAT much of a following? :-)

Re:FortKnox'ed?

[FortKnox]

Sure, I have a following [slashdot.org], but its nothing compaired to the number needed to do a good slashdotting...

You can make money without extortion!

[jcast]

And Software Hoarding == Extortion. Luckily, you can live off programming without participating in extortion: here's one way [opensource.org]; and here's another [tunes.org].

Do you use either of these models? Thought not

[Ars-Fartsica]

They look good on paper, but they don't represent dependable recurring streams of income...and I have found that people who do not need regualr income usually don't need income at all.

Re:Do you use either of these models? Thought not

[jcast]

Got any examples where they've been tried?

Re:FortKnox

[FortKnox]

No, cause I wasn't a great participant, and had a feeling the editors would ignore it even if it worked well...