[LUNI] Richard Stallman and Chicago G/LUG Meeting

[Constantin Gavrilescu]

Michael Labowicz wrote:
> On 11/1/06, John Quigley <jquigley at chicagolug.org> wrote:
>>
>> Folks:
>>
>> The Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group has invited Richard Stallman to give a
>> talk this coming Saturday, November 4th.  He's in Chicago for a brief
>> layover, and has asked to stop by.  He'll be speaking on the Free
>> Software movement and the GNU/Linux OS.
>>
>
> Unfortunately I had other plans for Saturday.  How did the meeting with
> Stallman go?  I'm curious about what he presented.

It was a political speech about free software, the fact that Linux 
should be Gnu/Linux, and he kept insisting that when you use proprietary 
software you lose your freedom. Does my car's computer have free 
software? Does my car gives freedom than it takes? I think it does. Does 
my cell phone's operating system is free? No. It gives me more freedom 
to talk whenever I want to? Yes. I am always trading some freedoms for 
other freedoms? Yes.

How to do a Richard Stallman speech: Browse the site www.gnu.org and 
extract random quotes from there. Put them together in a speech. Grow a 
beard and long hair so you look like the Beatles guru. Now this is 
important: during the speech pick your nose and your ears often in the 
middle of the sentence then look at your finger to see what you have 
picked up.

It was boring as hell.