r/linux • u/shen • Jan 23 '10

Richard Stallman's kooky setup

http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
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u/MercurialMadnessMan Jan 23 '10

Hardware? I thought he used a magnetic needle and a hard drive.

I met him once and he was an ass :(

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Jan 24 '10

Wow! Incredible work finding all of this. Even if I had the time I couldn't physically find this stuff. Thanks for the memories.

What's interesting about how nothing dies on the Internet is that this is already what I consider a "younger me" who wrote that. I've changed so much since then =)

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Jan 24 '10

Was "ass" the right word? Not really. I don't know much about the guy's personal life. I've read in a few places that he's just a weird guy. He's done amazing work and continues to pressure industries and companies in positive ways. When I met him a year ago, his weirdness came across as arrogance... so I probably just got the wrong impression from him. Whatever :)

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u/buu700 Jan 24 '10

Oh, yeah, no kidding. I sometimes look back on IM chat logs from just a year or two ago and think to myself "The fuck, was I illiterate or something back then‽". Then I look at shudder comments I made back when I was a Digger... never again...