Face it. He's a try-hard. He calls himself Dr. Stallman despite only having honorary degrees...

Face it. He's a try-hard. He calls himself Dr. Stallman despite only having honorary degrees. That would be like Kanye West calling himself Dr Kanye West. But he doesn't because even he knows that's pretentious.

If Kanye West is less pretentious than you, you're doing something wrong.

Stallman is a gargantuan faggot who calls himself a 'doctor' without having gained a PhD, destroys any credibility he has by acting like an ass "I'm not glad he's dead but I'm glad he's gone" and his only real claim to fame is contributing to the creation of Linux.

Without Linus and Linux the GPL and FSF would have faded into obscurity. They only reason anyone pays them any heed now is because of the (negligible) help it gave Linus back in the early days of Linux.

If anything the FSF should rename itself Linux/FSF, simply because the Linux project and Linus are the only reason anyone would pay them any attention now.

Stallman's work is just a footnote in the history of Linus's achievements. He should be grateful for that, otherwise he would be nothing.

Demanding people call Linux GNU/Linux is audacious.

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tl;dr let's move on to move important questions.

Is Stallman a hamster?

4 u maybe

To be fair his work on emacs, gcc, coreutils, and the gpl has had a much greater impact on the field of computing than the vast majority of "real degree" PhD doctors.

If they didn't want him to call himself Dr, they shouldn't have given him the degree. He has the degree, so he has the degree. Simple as that.

Why are you copying and pasting from the other thread? Fucking end your life

>simple as that

No, no it's not. Torvalds has honorary doctorates, Stallman has never referred to him as 'Doctor Torvalds', yet he refers to himself with the same honorific.

>if they don't want him to call himself doctor they shouldn't have given him the degree

Not how it works, it's not what the institutions want to call him, it's just widely known that it's bad form to call yourself a doctor if you only have honorary degrees. For example no one would call J.K Rowling Doctor Rowling, despite her ground breaking research into documenting Wizards.

He's a pretentious ass. Remove him from the sticky. Put Linus or Terry there instead.

I wonder what keeps him going. He could just leave the human species to its largely inevitable fate.

People are dumb, they cannot meaningfully change in their present context. We're living in an era of enforced degeneracy.

If Linus wanted to be callled Dr. Torvalds, then I'm sure Stallman would call him that. Stallman not calling him Dr is just respecting Linus's wishes.

Watched a live talk by him last year and he really came across as a paranoid creep. Kept cutting people with questions short when he couldnt answer them even when he opened up for questions, presenting a skewed image of the subject, preaching to his fanboy choir, getting hung up on terminology and while mocking other peoples terms ('amazon swindle').
I agree that he has some points, but he really needs a pr person that can do public talks and be the face of his cause.

>I'm sure Stallmam would call him that

No he wouldn't, he's always trying to pry himself into Linus's achievements. He constantly over-states how important he is while belittling others.

Doesn't matter anyway. Despite having changed the face of technology more, Linus knows that it's very bad form to call yourself a 'Doctor' without gaining a PhD. It just looks desperate.

However going back to that fat Jew, would he refer to Kanye as Doctor West too?

And if he did, do you think he would deserve to be called Doctor?

Or is this just some social justice bullshit 'I identify as a Doctor so don't oppress me shitlord'?

You deserve to be called doctor if you have a doctoral degree. IF you don't think he should be called doctor, take it up with the school who gave him the degree, not the man himself.

You don't deserve to be called a doctor if you have an 'Honorary Doctorate', it's an entirely political move universities do for their own reasons, sometimes charging a fee.

Kanye doesn't 'deserve' to be called Doctor West. Steve Job's has honorary degrees, does he deserve to be called 'Doctor' Jobs?

Stall man calling himself a doctor shows exactly how much of a fat, bitter fraud he really is.

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>it is a pol finding out about rms episode

where has he called himself a doctor anyway?

An Honorary Doctorate is still a Doctorate.

Actually finding out about this just gives me more respect for him. If an honorary doctorate is a degree you're supposed to accept without using, then he's totally subverting the system by using it to advantage. Kindof calling out the whole concept of honorary degrees (and infact even regular degrees in the first place). Classic Stallman, he's always thinking two moves ahead.

His email signature for one.

Completely unnecessary (and untrue) and yet on there for attention.

>Paranoid
Not in any talk I've ever seen. His model of how the world works is realistic and relatively accurate.

>creep
Probably. I didn't really think about it much until recently, it's very possible he has something worth hiding. For the sake of his movement or himself, though it's difficult to see through to someone's core without interacting with them directly.

He's heard it all and is sick of people to the point where he's unwilling to play along and manipulate their own train of thought. He also seems a bit weak on the whole theory of mind deal, to begin with. Humans are machines, but you can't force your own definitions, semantics, and redefinitions on them and expect it to stick fluidly. When explaining he also skips a lot of relevant aspects that people require to see the bigger picture, and so they reject the message when it doesn't initially appeal to their underlying affinity, and they remain in their myopia.

i also used to think he was a bit too extreme and almost ridiculous, but he really isn't. His logical framework is fully valid, but unfortunately idealistic. As you said, there is a likely intentional skew.

They need someone who is equally as devoted, as intelligent, but not mired in their first hand history. Gotta be willing and able to manipulate people and speak their language just enough that they begin to understand yours.

who gave doctor evil the doctor title?

he went to evil medical school

I just think his personality and personal appearance does more damage to the Linux community than anything else.

If he at least took care of himself, the public would pay more attention. You can cry about how that is not important but unfortunately it just is.

I agree, but in the end i think his cause is suffering for it

>proud of a fat Jew attempting to decieve people by claiming he's a real doctor

Calling yourself a Doctor when you only have an honorary degree is fraud.
Doctor isn't an honorary title; it's an earned title; it's a degree. It is commonly used with three degrees: Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathy and Doctor of Philosophy (MD, DO, and PhD, respectively). Some clergy earn a Doctor of Divinity, but in usage they're usually called "Reverend". Some lawyers earn a Juris Doctor (JD), but I've never heard one of them use "Doctor" as a title.

In all cases, these are degrees earned at accredited universities (colleges don't award graduate degrees by definition. So, formally, taking the title of "Doctor" has nothing to do with life-experience, advance in a field or otherwise. Sure, some people do this or get a "doctorate" from less than reputable sources (think from a cereal box advertisement). However, that's not legit and in theses days of ubiquitous information a recipe for disaster. Just looked at what happened lately to CEOs that just buff-up their degrees, much less fake them.

tl;dr Stallman is a fraud

>That would be like Kanye West calling himself Dr Kanye West.
Please do not give Kanye any ideas

I don't know. I lean more towards agreeing, but it's difficult to evaluate. Quite a wide spectrum.

Remove him from the sticky.

Put Terry or Linus there instead.

It's a good point thought, Kanye West is measurably less pretentious than Stallman simply by virtue of not calling himself a 'doctor'.

I genuinely don't know of a single person with an honorary degree who calls them self doctor. Stallman is the only one.

How pathetic.

Terry needs to be there

'No'

Fuck off tourist.

Oh look, it's the anti-stallman again.

Let's review:

Undergrad degree in physics from Harvard, doctoral student at MIT for a year afterwards. Published a paper about AI who's concepts are still in use today, among other papers he also published.

Wrote emacs, gcc, gdb and created the General Public License (GPL), popularizing if not creating the concept of copyleft. Founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and created the GNU project to produce a free (as in freedom) operating system that wouldn't restrict users.

For these efforts and others, he's received 15 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

I can understand disliking that someone would use the "Dr" title with only an honorary doctorate, but your autism is taking this to the next level. You made the same post (thread maybe?) this time last night about the exact same thing; Kanye analogy and all. Many of your responses and accusations are also the same as yesterday (same terminology and quantity of samefagging to boot). (I'll use the same image as yesterday then too)

So, what's going on? Is this an organized (paid) character assassination attempt, memes gone too far, or autism in an extreme.

In any case, his contributions to the computing world are both numerous and valuable.

Email signatures.

Just like the GPL was the ultimate hack of the copyright legal system, his Dr title is a hack of the education system. Don't forget it's the universities pushing these honorary degrees out so they can get prestige from associating with him, leeching off RMS's fame. Well, looks like ol' Stallman pulled a fast one and is getting something of his own right back. The university hsouldn't give out degrees if they don't enforce and treat them like other degress.

Like I said, classic stallman, and I fully support his subversive use of the Dr title

>measurably
This I want to hear.

He's a fraud and needs to be removed from the sticky. Maybe we could put Doctor Jobs there instead.

He's certainly done a lot of things.

Is one of those things gain a PhD? Oh wait, it's not?!

Well then he's not a Doctor is he then.

>is this an organised (paid) character assassination attempt

;^)

The FSF is irrelevant and Stallman will only be remembered as someone who helped Linus great Linux.

Freetard delusion is hilarious.

Not the OP, but Stallman is not a fucking doctor.

He is a mister. He's a fucking nobody. I don't give a shit what he made or how he did it. Oh wow, he went to MIT for graduate school for a year and then dropped out. You know what that makes him? It doesn't make him some cool guy, it makes him a fucking pussy-ass vagina bitch. He probably left because his grades were so fucking bad. His fucking landwhale-looking ass probably had so much cholesterol clogging his fucking arteries that he became atherosclerotic, and his brain died out in the process.

Just look at him for fuck's sake. He's so fucking fat, I'm surprised he can even move. This is probably how he came to be so fucking paranoid--the atherosclerosis he developed from being a morbidly obese fuck affected his brain so much that he's practically schizophrenic.

It's not a surprise that you neckbeard vir/g/ins have the same mindset he does, since you guys have the same physique and whatnot.

Autism maybe, which is no better since they are doing it for free.

An honorary doctorate is still a doctorate. In fact I think it should count even more, because his work inspired so many unis to give him degrees and he never even went there.

>I fully support his use of Doctor

He's a doctor in the same way Linus Torvalds is. I expect you to refer to Linus as Doctor Torvalds from now on.

>wrote emacs
Contributed to guy steele's TECO macros, later cloned gosmacs, the actual first emacs for UNIX. If stallman wrote emacs, apple is the sole creator of webkit.
>wrote gcc and gdb
He wrote the C compiler initially, but the vast majority of development for other compilers and the C compiler has came from non-stallman sources.

And he hasn't programmed in years. Stallman is washed up, and his justifications for copyleft are horribly invalid nonsense that would make more sense if they were actual thinly veiled communism instead of selfish ramblings and a desire for a world that catered to his specific social class.

are you this sad cunt?

terry davis is superior

if Linux wanted me to call him Dr, I would.

You can buy honorary doctorates if you donate enough to universities.

This alone renders them worthless academically.

But you know I don't need to explain this. Everyone knows a honorary degree is just that, a vague status. It doesn't mean you've earned a doctorate, it means someone has given you a title.

There's no need to explain it because everyone who has an honorary doctorate understands that. No one gains one and starts calling themselves doctor because it would be unseemly.

Everyone except Stallman.

Because Stallman is a fat Jew desperate for attention.

No, just dropping the truth on you.

Not being the true originator of emacs is a compliment unto stallman, by the way. He would be a terrible person if he were actually responsible for that crap, maybe even worse than bill joy and bram moolenar, founders of that delusional cult of unergonomic, slow programming and inefficient text processing.

UGH. Stallman wrote GNU EMACS. AKA the only emacs that's worth a good goddamn. THERE'S MORE THAN ONE EMACS GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD.

>copyleft

Filthy fucking communist...

Stallman copied someone else's work and took credit for it?

Well I never.

This is a man without a PhD calling himself Doctor though, so I shouldn't be surprised...

He wrote a shitty clone of a shitty editor that was a conceptual clone of an even shittier configuration for a fork of the shittiest editor to date at the time*, thereby creating the worst program in the history of man


*I'll give stallman credit for his TECO fork that took guy steele's horrible work to another level

Yeah just like "everyone knew copyright was for controlling people and not letting them have freedom". Except stallman brilliantly subverted that system to protect freedom instead.

Face it. Stallman's a breed apart. He doesn't go with the flow and do what everyone else does. He thinks for himself, and often comes up with some pretty damn brilliant hacks.

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>Because Stallman is a fat Jew desperate for attention.
This alone marks you as foolish, or a child. Most claims of "pretentiousness" or "they just want attention!" stem from myopia. Your understanding of people, yourself, and the world as a whole is so wanting and distorted as to not be remotely useful.

Build better heuristics. Improve yourself. This is a shameful, embarrassing display.

Stallman "brilliantly" used copyright to control people, and then told them that they were free, because they were forbidden from doing things stallman would not want to be done to himself.

You're free under the GPL like you're free according to karl marx once you're liberated from the interdependence of capitalism

except you are a slave, held back from human nature because a greedy nerd thought it would be nicer if everyone were forced to share

>Stallman calling himself a Doctor because he has less class than everyone else with an honorary degree is somehow clever.

Basically he's just being pretentious, and you think that being pretentious and calling giving himself titles he hasn't earned somehow means he's 'subverting the system'

No, it just means he's attention seeking.

/tdg/ was a mistake. just invitation for schizos to run rampant.

>Well then he's not a Doctor is he then.

I don't disagree, but this reaction is waaay out of proportion.

The FSF co-ordinates funding for a large number of projects, as for how Stallman will be remembered, only time will tell.

Go have your aneurysm somewhere else Pajeet.

Probably, but read the thread; tell me you don't see it.

>Contributed to guy steele's TECO macros, later cloned gosmacs
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>GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but Stallman's replacement of its Mocklisp interpreter with a true Lisp interpreter required that nearly all of its code be rewritten.

>He wrote the C compiler initially, but the vast majority of development for other compilers and the C compiler has came from non-stallman sources.
That's why I said gcc, not GCC. Don't omit gdb though, it's important.

>And he hasn't programmed in years. Stallman is washed up
As are most university professors and managers then, or anyone who goes into public speaking.

>his justifications for copyleft are horribly invalid nonsense
That's like, your opinion man.

>instead of selfish ramblings and a desire for a world that catered to his specific social class.
Guy went to Ivy League schools, he didn't need free (as in beer) software. Not to mention, isn't all people seek to achieve in life influence and happiness? Doesn't seem like an uncommon goal to me.

>put Terry on the sticky
Replace a meme autist with a real one? Why? Terry's cool, but he hasn't done anything to benefit the community at large.

>Stallman seeming pathetic to you is your problem, you just don't 'get' him

Let's all dress ourselves in borrowed robes like Stallman. Kek.

Yeah actually starting to smell fishy.

You don't get it do you dullard? It's just like when he calls himself "St. Ignucias" He doesn't really think he's a real Doctor or a real Saint, he's lampooning, critizing, and critiquing those people who call themselves by those titles and take themselves so seriously. It's all a sendup.

We should have Terry on the sticky.

He's put 'Doctor' in his email sig.

He's not lampooning anything. He's genuinely trying to get people to think he's a doctor.

Yeah, and he put a pic and his title as Saint IGNUcias on his website. Doesn't mean he wants people to think he's a real saint.

He doesn't put 'Doctor' in his email signature, he puts 'Dr Richard Stallman'.

B-but Kanye West is a doctor. He's got a PhD.


A pretty huge dick

You're just looping back on yourself.

I'm mainly replying to you because its clear you're miserable. Look at the things you choose to say. Look at the way you choose to say them. Look at how you respond to signals from your environment. Ask why. Ask why again. Keep asking why. And remember, you are your environment as much as you are yourself, and to a less extent, the inverse. There are much more useful and meaningful ways of being, and it's up to you to find them for yourself. Discovery is creation, there is no true difference between invention and discovery.

Stallman is just a proxy for you to act on a deeper, more core issue. Good luck in deciding if it's all worth it.

Unfortunately people are dumb enough that you need to state the obvious. The Saint deal stems from an old joke about the church of emacs. Beyond that, I don't know why it's there or if he has a defined intent and desire about it. Who knows.

>reaching Stallman-sequel levels of pretentiousness

Richard is that you?

If so you're not a doctor, stop calling yourself one.

What am I pretending to be.

That's stupid. He claims to be a doctor every day, which is a lie. Joking about being s prophet of the church of emacs is completely different

Fuck off CIA nigger

I don't understand. Isn't obtaining an honorary doctorate more prestigious? It means your work was so important that even though you didn't spoon feed money to a university they still gave you a degree.

I'd rather have an accredited university give me an honorary doctorate because it means I did something with my life, unlike you faggot.

Can't deny this beauty faggot

DERP DERP

Who saved this as a jpeg. His OS renders only to 8 bit if I recall, this is what png is ideal for. Can be paletted, mostly flat solid colors.

Like Kanye West's honorary degree? Or J.K Rowlings?

What about Dr. Steve Jobs, don't forget about him.

It's on his website every day.

No fun allowed. I want only srs bsns and everyone else should too.

Sure is Microsoft shill in here.

Hey mister, you better just cut it out. Don't make me get Hillary in here.

Or Templetroll, it's the new dank meme. Poor Terry.

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I'll always root for Terry.

ITT mothafuckas act like they forgot about Dre

I still consider him just a meme and his fans as well. Linus T is where it's at.

Anyone who uses "gnu/linux" on this board is tryhard faggot and should never be worth of listening to.

>Stallman is a gargantuan faggot who calls himself a 'doctor' without having gained a PhD

Holy shit, is this true? What a poser.

>They only reason anyone pays them any heed now is because of the (negligible) help it gave Linus back in the early days of Linux.

The only reason anyone talks about him is because he's a laughing stock that provides some form of entertainment in a very niche field.

Stop samefagging.

u wot m8?

it's widely accepted that people that call themselves "Dr. ____" on the basis of an honorary doctorate are self-absorbed frauds.

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oh just fuck off.
what have you achieved in your life?

you took a shit this morning and that's your peak.

You're even more paranoid than Stallman.

resorting to paranoia is really pathetic.

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Stallman isn't paranoid.

Framing it as "resorting" is dumb.

It was a good one though.

it would be noble if RMS did good in the world and humbly rejected status except to advance the cause he promotes. everyone loves self-sacrificial figureheads. it would be great if RMS did jokey stuff like portray himself as a saint in the OP pic, but totally forsookall the prestige of titles like "doctor". and honestly it would be consistent with how socially disconnected he is from "normal" society.

but he doesn't do any of that. he mocks stuff that people respect, didn't bother to finish his masters (let alone go for a phd), and yet he clings to the title "doctor" as though he earned it the legitimate way.

I have mixed feelings about people with phds being somewhat rude in correcting a person about their title (and as a phd student i see it more often than the average person), but the positive side of that ambivalence is that the work to earn a phd is not trivial, and the risk is arguably much greater.

post facto earning of an advanced degree universally requires being newsworthy. Kanye West has a doctorate. JK Rowling does too (x7). Oprah has like 4 I think. They all got theirs *because* they were famous. If Kanye had written all the same songs and just not broken out and achieved fame, he wouldn't have gotten an honorary doctorate. It has little to do with the contribution and everything to do with the impact.

the measure of whether you're a good researcher is your impact, and i agree that academia should reward that in that spirit, but granting someone a doctorate principally on the basis that they're famous and gave a speech at your university feels insulting to phd students. it's a minor insult among many greater ones, so i'm not about to march on washington over it, but it's an insult nonetheless.

when someone is given an honorary doctorate and they enthusiastically play into that farce, it makes both parties in this system (the admin at the university and the person being granted the degree) equally guilty to me.

when someone gives you evidence that you're wrong and your next step is to raise questions that there's a conspiracy, that's resorting to paranoia.

If you object to "resorting", I can use "grasping" instead.

god damn, trips and quints in such a short time checked

...Conspiracy? Among whom, you and yourself?

We have very different ideas about what constitutes acceptable evidence, besides.

what a load of waffle.

The world has caught up and "open-source" is everywhere but back in the 90s it was rare.
The values he pushed (and pushed hard) laid the foundations for all your free stuff now (well that and linux).

just because the things he did and wrote aren't in fashion at the moment, aren't the new hotness, aren't latte-sipping apple hipster cool doesn't mean that he didn't do things.

he wrote a shit load of stuff.

fuck off back to windows.