Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer
A changed RMS appeared at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland
The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_cancer/ #GNU #Linux
I think El Reg stated it well at the end of their article. Stallman may be a divisive figure, especially in recent years, however no one deserves to go through an illness that scary and difficult to fight, even with modern medicine on their side.
Fuck cancer.
Although Stallman is a controversial and polarizing figure, he is widely acknowledged as a pioneer. Without his efforts to formalize and promote Free Software, there would be no Open Source world today. There have been multiple expressions of concern across the internet, and many people wishing him the best.
Well said, fartsparkles
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After Bram Moolenaar, the legendary creator of vim, it might just hit another legendary figure in the world of OSS. It's true that he is controversial, but he has my respect and best wishes.
*free software
Stallman disagrees with "open source". The least you could do is stop associateing him with it
Someone should keep an eye on Linus.
The unspeakable thing will eventually happen. I can't imagine it, Linus is the giant among giants.
Everyone is so depressed about this thing, that they don't even want to write comments here
Yeah just fucking sad. This guy changed the way I think about software, releasing code I write, contributing etc. Would be so sad to see him go.
Yeah. I'm not a big "celebrity" person but he's had a net positive impact to the world and devoted his life to his cause. I have a signed copy of his hacking book from a seminar in college. I hope he comes out on the other side. I have a lot of respect for him despite his eccentric statements.
I’m with you. I have a lot of friends with Aspergers and other ASDs (one of the joys of a life in tech - lots of interesting and intelligent friends). Stallman’s post following his return to the board of FSF and his unnecessary public comments and debate around Epstein, his guests, and child abuse strongly reminded me of some of the troubles my ASD friends have gotten themselves into by not quite groking social cues, “reading the room”, or knowing which topics and situations welcome debate and which ones don’t or will likely get emotional responses from other participants rather than rational.
A lot of them may have commented on the first post.
Hopefully he gets well soon
Oh man - he's unrecognizable. Sad, truly sad
My mom had the same cancer. Only discovered it at the beginning of 2021. She died December 2022.....
But then again she didn't want chemo. Looks like he is treating it so hopefully he'll live longer.
I imagine he's very frustrated with the medical process.... All those machines running old proprietary windows and old proprietary vendor software.
Not tongue in cheek at all either. It scares me and I'm nowhere near as hard core as RMS.
Relevant xkcd comic .
I hope he gets over it. He was a true visionary.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Radiology/comments/11qr1sj/is_it_worth_it_learning_artificial_intelligence/
i think what this redd subb is saying is that unless a person is involved in a stateoftheart/research project.. the software isnt really valuable on an everyday basis ( compared to just using professional software that is the product of new research )
kinda demoralizing(in this context).
it would be cool if he could FOSS his way out of this one.Permanently Deleted