Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

[zridling]

In a fascinating interview with this odd and sometimes lovable man, he admits:

• His biggest failing is how so many people confuse free software with open source software.
• Doesn't care for Hollywood movies.
• Recommends you buy the best books using cash, in a store.

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[Renegade]

What is vim doing better than emacs?
RMS: Sorry, I have never tried using vim. I never felt I deserved such a large penitence ;-).

Muahahahahahahaha~! LOVE IT~!

[Tuxman]

Bah, Emacs. (So this interview is not a fake?)

[rxantos]

I do not know who said this:
"Emacs is a good Operating System, the only thing it needs is a good editor".
Or something similar

[housetier]

Mr Stallman is a very good speaker. I heard him live a few years ago at a conference in Berlin, Germany. Also he has a sense of humor and irony: at the end he put on an ancient hard disk as sort of a heiligenschein and blessed us; we all had a good laugh afterwards.

[danlock77]

[...]humor and irony: at the end he put on an ancient hard disk as sort of a heiligenschein and blessed us[...]

Einer Heiligenschein ist (auf Englisch): "halo" oder "nimbus" ....

That is to say, a "heiligenschein" is a "halo" or "nimbus" ...

O:-)

(I don't use German frequently enough to feel comfortable publicly writing sentences sometimes--like now. )

[Tuxman]

It is "ein Heiligenschein"

[housetier]

Well since I saw the term on both sides on my favorite online dictionary, I assumed it was a known term. Well, our readers will know now

It sounded convincing for myself, since other terms have been injected into the English language: alpenglow, kindergarten, rucksack, uber, muesli, iceberg...

[Tuxman]

"Muesli", anyway, is a Swiss word, not really German.