Richard Stallman has cancer
From his website stallman.org:
Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.
Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.
Sad news about a pioneer of internet freedom. He has earned his fair share of criticism and detractors, but he has also given a lot to the Linux and free software ecosystem. I personally run !boinc@sopuli.xyz on all my rigs to support open-source cancer research, I hope one day we can finally cross cancer off the list of humankind's foes.
Stallman is like the friend you'll never introduce to your family.
The guy in your WoW guild who carries hard but you know you never want to meet.
cancer is bloat
Sudo apt remove cancer.
Unprivileged users are stuck with cancer. Life ain't fair.
Unknown proprietary blobs intervening his free-functioning body
Fuck cancer!
Literally or metaphorically?
No humor in Lemmy, please.
Seeing him without his beard and hair feels so wrong and even uncanny. I hope he has a lot more years ahead of him and he kicks cancer's ass.
His great hair is just too iconic, I would never have recognized him.
I hope he live enough years to grow back his hair and beard
His page doesn't load so it must be overwhelmed with visitors.
Linux users all around the world who want to be close to him.
When things matter, we are a good community guys <3
From what I read it slow growing and pretty manageable as far as cancer is manageable of course. Hope he'll make a quick recovery, and start growing that magnificent beard back.
If Hank Green is anything to go by, it'll only come back stronger.
Edit: His beard I mean.
Yikes. Your comment was very easy to take out of context.
Until I read back, it looked like you were saying Hank's cancer was somehow back stronger than before (which would have to have been practically fresh breaking news), and not a comment on post-chemotherapy beard growth being different, perhaps stronger, than before.
Follicular cancer doesn't sound like it bodes as well for a beard as other kinds of lymphoma (like Hank's was) but hey, you might still be right.
(RMS is a controversial character in some regards. While I wouldn't strictly wish the loss of a greybeard's beard as cosmic correction of controversial behaviour, I'd much rather that than cancer. That'd be too far, Universe.)
Really unfortunate. He looks rough. May his days be long yet.
Eff cancer :(
Hopefully some day we get to the point where it's as rare as polio. I think that's the same kind that Hank Green had though, IIRC. Hopefully it's as manageable.
Your comment confused me since I thought you were saying the EFF was cancer at first.
I have never read the initialisation EFF as “eff” before but now… can’t unsee
man, those screenshots hurt
Wishing him a speedy recovery.
RMS is a hero he will survive. I really respect this dude commitment to his beliefs and values and everyone know that he is right despite any personal biases against him. Foss is the way.
Is he accepting medical treatments that require non-free software? Serious question, from what I know of him he would rather die. I don't know if that changes when you're actually faced with it though.
Software freedom applies only to hardware you personally own. It wouldn't even apply to machines you interact with but do not own (such as ATMs or kiosks) since you aren't the one who agrees to the proprietary software license.
Stallman himself explains it in his computing FAQ.
If you would like to put my speech on the Internet, or distribute it in digital form, I insist on using the formats of the free software community: Ogg Vorbis or Ogg Speex
Streaming is a kind of Internet distribution, so everything in the previous section applies. In particular, you must use only Ogg format or Matroska VP8 (Webm).
http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/rms_speech_requirement.html
It seems reasonable to wonder if he'll allow an MRI image of his cancer if that image isn't saved in a Free format. I don't know where he draws the line, but his requirements seem to go quite a bit beyond what he owns or interacts with.
He mentioned once that he can use a bank that doesn't use free software because he's not logging in to it to do general purpose computing. I think the same would probably apply to medical treatments.
Yes Stallman have issues but you dont wish someone dead! I know someone who is currently battling cancer and on chemotherapy and its an awful situation just to see it. I hope RMS can beat the cancer.
What? Who's wishing for Stallman's death?
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I certainly hope no one is actually wishing for Stallman's death, but I feel at least a few people will be "glad he's gone" as Stallman said of Steve Jobs.
Yes Stallman have issues but you dont wish someone dead!
What
🫡 to a real one.
May he live as long as possible.
Noooooooo
Cancer and clean-shavenness aside, I disagree with much of his talk. I don't see making social media (or "anti-social media" as he calls it) illegal is the best solution.
Heck's sake, Ballmer hexed that one on Stallman, with all that saying that "Linux is a cancer" and all that
My dad is recovering from cancer and it was a hard fight, I sincerely wish the best for Stallman.
as cancers go, this one seems better than the usual ones.
Hank Green had something similar and he was in and out within 3-ish months, still recovering and Richard might have it somewhere else but you know.
It's incurable but usually has a good long term prognosis (97% 5 year survival rate and most people live 20+ years from diagnosis). Seems that the best RMS will get is remission but not cancer free.
The last part of the headline reminds me of windows
wait, covid-19 is still a thing!!? which year is this.
It's gonna be 2020 every damn year until the last of those damned redcaps drops dead wondering why they can't taste the horse paste.
I caught it a couple months ago. It absolutely sucked.
Covid is now in the endemic status. It will remain.
If you live in the USA is still a thing (boosters and masks)
In the rest of the world (like me), is a thing from the past for some time
*GNU+cancer
I have a hard time deciding what to do with this.
On the one hand... Dude, even as someone who loves dark humour, I couldn't bring myself to make a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis unless the person was a true shitstain on the earth, like Trump.
On the other hand...that was fucking brilliant and works on so many levels.
Yeah I love dark humor as well but timing is everything.
I had pretty much the same thought process.
It's dark, but brilliant.
Yet I can't imagine RMS being offended by this, so I shouldn't either.
That's the kind of thing I wouldn't be too surprised to hear from the guy himself.
The world is a better place because of him and I wish him well.
Well it's dark humor and I can see how some are deeply offended. The post even says it's a slow growing treatable form, so personally I'll laugh at the joke. It's not like he's end stage untreatable form of cancer. Like you know arch linux running on WSL level cancer.
Read the room dude
Mind your business
Certified banger
Very dark but I'll allow it.
My humor is fucking dark so I had to laugh but that one dose go a little far, it's a good joke but with that timing I certainly wouldn't make it!
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Dunno why you of all people are insulting their intelligence.
While they made a clever double reference to the GNU/Linux meme and tying it in with the Ballmer 'Linux is cancer' rant, you not only come out with a one word response, but that one word makes you look infinitely worse than the person who literally made a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis.
Maybe ableist slurs weren't the best idea?
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