[crackmonkey] The Stallman Awards

[Chris DiBona]

That is fucking beautiful, I'd love to be the fly on the wall when he sees
those.

 Chris

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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Seth David Schoen wrote:

> Rick Moen writes:
> 
> > Seth David Schoen (schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu) replied to Nick Moffitt:
> > 
> > >> Seth David Schoen -- Most reserved Stallman conversation.
> > >> Despite all his slights against libertarianism, you held strong and
> > >> didn't get riled up.  That, and your beard is far mightier than his.
> > > 
> > > Um, thanks.  Don't you think that you should get a similar award?
> > 
> > Really?  How _is_ Nick's beard doing, these days?
> 
> Oh, not that part.  The "didn't get riled up" part, I mean.  I heard Nick
> mumbling when Richard said something about "what Christianity teaches" --
> but Nick kept the dB level of his mumbling very low.
> 
> For what it's worth, I think Nick's beard is fairly impoverished, but I
> bet he could change that pretty easily.
> 
> Some of the people at the dinner table seemed shocked that "libertarians
> believe that the proper function of government is only to protect property
> rights!", as though this were a dirty secret of some sort, while in fact
> this claim appears in the published _promotional literature_ of even fairly
> moderate libertarian entities.
> 
> > > But regardless, I think you win an award for your subterfuges in giving
> > > Richard M. Stallman two t-shirts from a PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE COMPANY!
> > 
> > I'm the unindicted co-conspirator on that one.  (Somebody want to explain
> > that phrase's context to the young'uns?  Last night, some of our Berkeley
> > contingent failed to get a reference to Ernestine the Telephone Operator.
> > O tempora, o mores!
> 
> I know I was one of those.
> 
> Nick showed RMS some SuSE t-shirts, which he wanted to give to RMS as a
> peace-offering (to show SuSE's goodwill toward the free software movement).
> On seeing them, RMS told Nick to "burn them", and explained that SuSE was
> distributing proprietary software and failing to distinguish between free
> and proprietary software.
> 
> Nick put up a pretty valiant effort to persuade RMS that things were
> changing and free software consciousness at SuSE improving, but RMS didn't
> appear to want the shirts, so Nick held onto them.  Then, on the way out
> to Rick's car, Nick managed to put the shirts into Stallman's box, which
> Rick was holding.  So Stallman might be surprised to find that he was the
> unwitting beneficiary of those shirts after all.
> 
> -- 
>    Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
> He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do."  And they
> said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the
> nations." (1 Sam 8)  http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/   http://www.loyalty.org/
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