Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 13 August 2006 22:51 \__
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
http://stallman.org/extra/personal.html
Pretty interesting/amusing.
Context:
Becoming a free software developer, part I: Why am I not a free software
developer?
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| With all of the recent argument over the lack of women in the free
| software community, especially as relates to the reports from
| the Free/Libre/Open Source Software Group, which state that only 1.5%
| of the free software development community is female, and that women
| are actively discouraged from becoming free software developers. Id
| ecided to take a new approach and ask myself, "Why am I not a free
| software developer?"
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1714
Well good luck to him. I don't think many woman would be checking out
his website and finding that personal. I don't think many women even
know who he is. I was about to say he'd increase his chances if he got
a shave and an exercise mat, ball and book, but perhaps hippy women do
like that teddy bear look.
...Sorry to stray off to personal territories, but one might wonder if
Stallman is *gasp* a virgin. Either way, I believe that his opinionated
opinions (yes, "opinion" twice) will make it hard for him to find a
girlfriend... unless they connected on an intellectual/spiritual/ideological
level and the mental overlap was flawless. But don't get me wrong. I
appreciate Stallman's work /enormously/. Where would we be without the FSF?
What would the choice be when it comes to PC's? Solaris/Mac/Windows? Sun
appears to be the most benevolent, but it's not ideal for a home user. Not
sure how BSD would fit in, but it needs FOSS (e.g. GNOME desktop) to make it
viable.
AFAIK, he's not, based on some comments one event organizer I know said
in passing about after-hours "arrangements" for RMS. *But* this is only
hearsay, so probably many pounds of salt required.
Regards,
ws
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