From: nospam@dfs.com   
      
   On 2/23/2026 8:13 AM, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 2/23/26 7:59 AM, DFS wrote:   
   >   
   >> You should be thanking Ritchie, Thompson and Kernighan.   
   >>   
   >> Absent them, Repulsive Maggot Stallman would be a nobody like yourself.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even   
   >> incest and pedophilia... should be legal as long as no one is coerced."   
   >> https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "When making pornography involves real abuse of real children, those who   
   >> distribute it under a business relationship with the abusers arguably   
   >> participate in the abuse. They could be prosecuted for doing so.   
   >> However, that does not excuse censorship. No matter how disgusting   
   >> published works might be, censorship is more disgusting."   
   >> https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Why is this vile pig walking around free to excuse and embolden   
   >> pedophiles?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Jail Stallman   
   >   
   >   
   > Say what you will, I'm still gonna use his software.   
      
      
   Did you mean GPL software?   
      
   'Cause "his software" is limited to a very small number of programs (tho   
   the Internet says he "was a major contributor to early GNU utilities").   
      
   But I think he quit writing code a long time ago:  I just did a   
   Notepad++ search for 'Stallman' in the source code of coreutils-9.10,   
   and got:   
      
      
   Search "Stallman" (14 hits in 8 files of 188 searched) [Extended]   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\cat.c (2 hits)   
   	Line  22:    By tege@sics.se, Torbjörn Granlund, advised by rms,   
   Richard Stallman.  */   
   	Line  47:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman")   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\comm.c (2 hits)   
   	Line  17: /* Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. */   
   	Line  36:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\ls.c (2 hits)   
   	Line   32: /* Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.  */   
   	Line  127:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\od.c (1 hit)   
   	Line 1577:    Based on a function written by Richard Stallman for a   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\rm.c (2 hits)   
   	Line  17: /* Initially written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and   
   Richard Stallman.   
   	Line  40:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\split.c (1 hit)   
   	Line   52:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman")   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\tee.c (2 hits)   
   	Line  17: /* Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie */   
   	Line  37:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \   
      
      D:\computer\OS\GNU\coreutils\coreutils-9.10\src\uniq.c (2 hits)   
   	Line  17: /* Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie. */   
   	Line  40:   proper_name ("Richard M. Stallman"), \   
      
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