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Oh I was in tears by the third Stallman posting. It looks like he was posting the same things in other threads as well. Stallman spamming



There are actually rampaging Stallman bots that will post those. It's pretty great, actually.

New startup idea: Stallman-as-a-service.


The API endpoint is an e-mail address, and you send a request by e-mailing it a link to a JSON file. Said JSON is read by downloading it with wget.

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Well, here's Stallman as a shell 1-liner

    curl -s "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" |grep "<li>" | grep -v -E "(Chapter|href|Source:)" | perl -MList::Util -e 'print List::Util::shuffle <>' | head -n1 | sed -E -e "s#</?(li|i|b)>##g"


First try:

"I'm the last survivor of a dead culture, and I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead."


This one opens really well, then the inevitable kicks in:

The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system, based on the Constitution's view that it is meant to benefit the public, not the copyright owners. Today, one of the benefits the public wants is the use of computers to share copies.


> Stallman-as-a-service.

Just make sure the backend is Affero GPL. ;)


I believe you mean Service-as-a-Stallman-Substitute


you mean like a cloud based VRMS written in javascript?

p.s. - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vrms


Stallman-as-a-service

Written in either Go or JS, of course. Preferably both.


Guile


why not elisp?


Elisp is going to become a frontend for Guile, so it's probably future proofing.




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