I've heard he's pretty crazy. Every recorded interview I've seen with him was....interesting. I'm just kind of excited to see it up close. Who knows, maybe he'll play the recorder.....
The whole "giving the Han Solo award to the rebel fleet" thing in Revolution OS is classic. ~bernie ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:49:02 -0400 >From: Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] [Fwd: Re: Distinguished Guest Speaker - Richard >Stallman - Wednesday, April 18, 2007] >To: [email protected] > >On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 08:41:28PM -0400, Bernie Hackett wrote: >> Holy .....Me thinks I will be leaving work early that day... > >Fair warning, but RMS is a *&@#^4@ nut job :-P > >I saw him talk at a scifi con once, and yes it was for a different >audience then the CS faculty, but he was scary. He went fairly steadily >back and forth between ranting and raving, and finished his "talk" off >by putting on a big purple mumoo and an old disk platter on his head and >talking about the church of Emacs. I understand that this is an act >for the True Believers, but I just found it unsettling. > >I'm going to be out of the country for this, but if people could post a >debriefing to the list afterwards for all the people like me that can't >be there, that would be awesome. > >- Rob >. > >PS I use vi, so all of the above need to be taken with a grain of salt :-)
