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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:47:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage...
Message-ID:  <199902191551.KAA07396@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiucz82r5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 19 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Ah, Mae Ling Mak, the hacker girl who wrote this very unappetizing
> story about Richard Stallman:
> 
>      http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=367b074c-060b7ba0
> 
> Funny thing (re. what Mae Ling writes about RMS scratching himself) is
> that when he was in Oslo, somebody in the audience said something to
> the effect that he'd never shake RMS's hand after seeing where it'd
> been - apparently RMS spent most of the evening scratching his butt. I
> wouldn't know, I was taking advantage of the unusually quiet and
> underpopulated lab to get some work done.

So basically, RMS is the stereotypical geek, with odious personal habits,
and absolutely no people skills.  Why am I suddenly glad he distances
himself from anything non gnu.

Jamie Bowden

-- 

If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)



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