Again, RMS is the kind of person who contacted our group, and tried to browbeat us into changing our name from The Twin Cities Linux User's Group to The Twin Cities GNU/Linux User's Group. I think we're allowed to laugh at him a bit. On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, paul g wrote: > Why laugh at someone who is trying to compute. Code is code and RMS may not > be sexy. I appreciate the freedom that GNU/UNIX/Linux gives in order to > think freely. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > From: ryanjcole at me.com > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:54:20 -0500 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Happy B-Day RMS > > Someone from the Netherlands, according to the whois record… > Domain Name:rms.sexy > Domain ID:DO_6a14351607e803e7f5b23b7de5865067-UR > WHOIS Server: whois.uniregistry.net > Referral URL: http://whois.uniregistry.net > Updated Date: 2014-03-04T11:42:01.709Z > Creation Date: 2014-02-27T11:42:01.625Z > Registry Expiry Date: 2015-02-27T11:42:01.625Z > Sponsoring Registrar: Gandi SAS > Sponsoring Registrar ID: 81 > Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 81 > Domain Status: ok > Registrant ID: bb6477-gandi > Registrant Name: Bas Bieling > Registrant Street: Jonathan Swiftlaan 2 > Registrant City: Eindhoven > Registrant Postal Code: 5629 MR > Registrant Country: NL > Registrant Phone: +31.402903336 > Registrant Email: bb652b37da832d3d25e8a07f1d866dc5-1678621 at contact.gandi.net > Admin ID: bb6477-gandi > Admin Name: Bas Bieling > Admin Street: Jonathan Swiftlaan 2 > Admin City: Eindhoven > Admin Postal Code: 5629 MR > Admin Country: NL > Admin Phone: +31.402903336 > Admin Email: bb652b37da832d3d25e8a07f1d866dc5-1678621 at contact.gandi.net > Tech ID: bb6477-gandi > Tech Name: Bas Bieling > Tech Street: Jonathan Swiftlaan 2 > Tech City: Eindhoven > Tech Postal Code: 5629 MR > Tech Country: NL > Tech Phone: +31.402903336 > Tech Email: bb652b37da832d3d25e8a07f1d866dc5-1678621 at contact.gandi.net > Billing ID: bb6477-gandi > Billing Name: Bas Bieling > Billing Street: Jonathan Swiftlaan 2 > Billing City: Eindhoven > Billing Postal Code: 5629 MR > Billing Country: NL > Billing Phone: +31.402903336 > Billing Email: bb652b37da832d3d25e8a07f1d866dc5-1678621 at contact.gandi.net > Name Server:b.dns.gandi.net > Name Server:c.dns.gandi.net > Name Server:a.dns.gandi.net > DNSSEC: unsigned > > >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-03-20T03:52:28.917Z <<< > > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:51 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > > He gets a lot of respect from us, but he also has a sense of > humor. I don't know who made rms.sexy or why they made it, but > I don't think it was meant to evoke an outpouring of respect. > We aren't mocking him but we are laughing at the web page. I'm > pretty sure that's what they were shooting for. > > Mike > > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, paul g wrote: > > Mocking RMS seems low; I find the topics and passion > about the operating system relevant to some form of > respect. > > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:37:54 -0500 > From: mbmiller+l at gmail.com > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Happy B-Day > RMS > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Linda Kateley > wrote: > > I don't know what is > weirder, the fact that there > is a slide show of him > typing in places around the > world called "sexy" or the > fact that I > watched the whole thing :) > > > It was pretty short, so I saw all of it, > too. The thing that would be > weird is if you watched it twice. ;-) > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >