From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:16:22 -0500, DFS wrote:   
      
   > On 1/26/2026 11:37 AM, vallor wrote:   
   >> At Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:08:50 -0500, DFS  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 1/25/2026 10:06 AM, Stallman Lackey Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud)   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> the great Dr. Richard M. Stallman   
   >>>   
   >>> He's NOT great, and he's NOT a Doctor.   
   >>   
   >> Actually, say what you will about the guy (I don't agree with a lot of   
   >> his speech), he's still a Doctor many times over.   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Honors_and_awards   
   >   
   >   
   > Honorary doctorates are meaningless fluff, and a mockery of the real   
   > credential.   
   >   
   > Taylor Swift (pop music) and Missy Elliott (crap music) have honorary   
   > doctorates.  "Doctor Swift"... what a joke.  "Doctor Elliott" = bigger   
   > joke.   
   >   
   > Stallman's code contributions (primarily to gcc, glibc, gdb and emacs)   
   > are nice, but even so: that code, a 'copyleft' license, and cloning Unix   
   > aren't achievements worthy of anything but 'Thanks!', and certainly not   
   > an honorary doctorate or hundreds of $thousands in awards.   
   >   
   > Only a dick-sucking lackey like Feeb would believe Stallman is 'great'   
   > and deserves to be called 'Doctor'.   
      
   Once again, you have to ask yourself whether free software and an entirely   
   free operating system would have seen the light of day had Stallman not   
   gotten annoyed with that printer in the late 1980s. I believe that had it   
   not been for him, we would be stuck in a Windows vs. Mac situation with no   
   alternative whatsoever. Both companies would give us little more than   
   table scraps for free, and Microsoft would happily charge $600 or more for   
   their office suite. _Maybe_ IBM would still have been around with OS/2,   
   but I doubt it.   
      
   Given that situation, Stallman has indeed earned a doctorate. His   
   dedication to free software means that all of us have a way out, whether   
   we are annoyed with the fact that our platform of choice won't let us   
   uninstall the browser or forces artificial intelligence into everything.   
   We have a choice because grouchy Stallman thought that people should have   
   a right to know how their hardware works and create a driver for it   
   themselves if the manufacturer refuses to support it.   
      
      
      
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   CrudeSausage   
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