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Richard Stallman has his bag stolen in Argentina


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#16 Simon-

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 04:45

He probably does have it backed up, on an offsite hard drive back home because as he does not trust the Cloud or anyone other than himself to hold his data. That, or he refuses to touch anyone elses' computer out of principal that it might contain non-OSS software in the BIOS (He uses a special computer that is fully OSS right down to the hardware I heard). Travel insurance covers everything that is material. To put himself in a position where he needs to cancel his talk because of a laptop loss (which just as easily could have been hardware failure), he must not be as smart as everyone seems to think he is.


#17 rfirth

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 05:04

View Postnowimnothing, on 11 June 2012 - 00:49, said:

Perhaps someone took his "everything should be free and shared with everyone" talks a little too literally...
Now he knows what it feels like to have his property stolen.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 05:10

View Postseafirex, on 11 June 2012 - 00:45, said:

if he spent a large amount of time to write it and if he was going to be paid to present it, they just destroyed his work. With a basic act like that.
I spend a large amount of time writing software and I'd like to be paid... piracy is also a basic act :p

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:34

View PostThe Laughing Man said:

Crying over that tho, thats pretty sad. I've had worse happen, but to cry over it, geez man..

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View PostYorak said:

In other news, I pooped about 37.5 minutes ago. Oh, what's that, you don't care? Because I am not famous? Lol...
I don't think you ever looked at the **** that is posted in this section. Then again, the helicopter accident from Paul Allen's yatch (neither Allen or Gates were involved) was frontpaged last year.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:44

While I understand people saying he needs to harden up, if any of you have seen the guy talk, you'd understand why he reacted this way.

His entire life is in his work..

Poor ****** :(

#21 mudslag

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 09:58

who the **** is this guy and why should we care?

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:04

View PostSpencer R, on 11 June 2012 - 04:11, said:

Stolen? No, his possessions just got made available to the general public in as open and free manner as possible.

LOL! But seriously I always make sure my passport is on me or in a hotel safe :s

#23 Intrinsica

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:13

View Postmudslag, on 11 June 2012 - 09:58, said:

who the **** is this guy and why should we care?
Richard Stallman.

#24 nik louch

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:21

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His entire life is in his work..

Then he should have taken greater measures to protect it, or have a backup (which I'd be pretty certain he MUST have, somewhere?).

#25 mudslag

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:31

View PostIntrinsica, on 11 June 2012 - 10:13, said:



Ok so he is someone I could care less about, got it.




In all fairness, I understand copyright laws can get out of hand but at the same time, I understand people have a right to do with what they please with their software that they worked hard for.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:36

Hope he backed up. I'd hate to lose my laptop I use it for everything, of course I backup using Time Machine but still losing it would suck.

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:48

If he's so f'ing smart, why didn't have a backup laptop or some other means of keeping his work. :s

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 11:07

View Postahhell, on 11 June 2012 - 10:48, said:

If he's so f'ing smart, why didn't have a backup laptop or some other means of keeping his work. :s
He doesn't believe in such things as cloud storage as it would violate his "freedom", He actually only connects to the internet to read/send emails that's it.

This guy is crazy, check out this video, in the middle of a speech he decides its time to eat, but where he eats from is truly disturbing.