This is more satire than an April Fool's Joke unless you've changed your name to Richard. :D
Maybe a pull request/enhancement request to have ubase/sbase support Windows would have been more apropos. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Good evening, > > you should already know me. I am Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the > Free Software Foundation and the philosophic basis of Free Software. > Don't mistake Open Source Software with Free Software, both are > completely different concepts. > > Reading about what "suckless" is about, I've got the impression that > you do not know what Free Software is about. You choose to publish > your code under permissive licenses which in the end might be used > by rogue states like Iran, North Korea and the USA to shoot innocent > civilians in the world's battlefields. > I do not agree with that in two ways: > > * Software freedom comes from control. Don't fool yourself with > licenses which actually allow the user to use the software freely. > You write the software, the users have to do what you want. > Child rapists and racists use MIT and ISC licenses every day. > Don't get into the same boat, use the GPL. > > * Permissive licenses are too complex to use! Look at all the cruft > hidden behind the simplistic wording of these licenses. > Our FSF lawyers took their time, did their honest job and wrote > every possible remote direct and indirect possible use-case of the > GPL-software you write and put it under specific terms. > Don't worry about loopholes. You can read it all up in the license > itself! > > "suckless" is ruined! What the hell am I supposed to do? Start over? > I can't write another essay on why the GPL is the best software > license around. Don't question my authority! > > If you are to question the truths presented by myself and the FSF, > we will publish your name, home address and other relevant data > on the new FSF pillory [http://www.fsf.org/pillory/] to shut you > up. > If you don't watch out, your deliberate attempts to subjugate the > users and attack software freedom might turn our society into a > police state! > > Also, try to obtain your food from Open Sores like on your foot, > ankle, nose or buttocks. Given I can't live off my feet alone, > I've recently tapped a new source of protein: The lice in facial > and head hair. Happy feasting! > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. > > >
