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Last edited by schmidtbag; 26 June 2017, 03:51 PM.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Posthe still has a heavy influence on GNU, GCC, Hurd, and other projects.
So when he dies, I predict it'll be much harder for people to continue using him as their spokesperson.
Ideas that have reached a critical mass self-replicate (and mutate) not unlike biological entities.
New stallmanites will be formed by reading blogs written by other people citing His Open Sourcenness even after he died, and will pass this on to others. I'm already sure most current stallmanites are formed like this, as Stallman could not be so effective as the many many blogs and people preaching his choir. As he is a single individual.
Really, killing off ideas, or nutjobs, is not as easy as killing off the leader.
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Originally posted by AdamOne View Postis it gnu or the fsf that run this and the GCC, because they are awful.
clang smoked GCC without too much difficulty.
Does "without too much difficulty" mean being funded for over a decade with a many-million-dollar investment by the richest technology company that ever existed (amongst numerous 3rd party funding)?
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Originally posted by DMJC View PostYeah, just keep bagging out the one person that had an idea which literally changed the world. Good job. Linux/UNIX arguably wouldn't even exist anymore if it hadn't been for his ideas. We'd all be forced to run Windows, maybe Mac.
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Originally posted by DMJC View PostYeah, just keep bagging out the one person that had an idea which literally changed the world. Good job. Linux/UNIX arguably wouldn't even exist anymore if it hadn't been for his ideas. We'd all be forced to run Windows, maybe Mac.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostHe has plenty of influence, considering Stallmanites are still a thing (I wasn't kidding when I said he had apostles). Many people, including Phoronix visitors, may not identify as one but they fit the description. He's pretty much the founder of these concepts, hence the term. And no, I'm not saying he was the first to have these viewpoints, he's just the ones who got widely recognized for it. To my knowledge, he still has a heavy influence on GNU, GCC, Hurd, and other projects. So when he dies, I predict it'll be much harder for people to continue using him as their spokesperson.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostThere is still a sizeable amount of people that use Jesus as their "spokeperson", and he is supposed to have died two full millenia ago.
Ideas that have reached a critical mass self-replicate (and mutate) not unlike biological entities.
New stallmanites will be formed by reading blogs written by other people citing His Open Sourcenness even after he died, and will pass this on to others. I'm already sure most current stallmanites are formed like this, as Stallman could not be so effective as the many many blogs and people preaching his choir. As he is a single individual.
Keep in mind I'm not insisting my prediction is right; it is just a prediction after all, not a prophecy. And I'm also not saying that when Stallman dies that suddenly everyone holding his beliefs will suddenly disappear with him; I'm sure it'd take a solid decade for there to be a noticeable effect.Last edited by schmidtbag; 27 June 2017, 08:56 AM.
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It seems Gnome is a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/software/software.en.html .
Would gnome exist without stallman ?
If the answer is no, it seems mr Stallman has had a very big influence on desktop linux.
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