15 Mythical and Humorous Facts About Richard Stallman

You may have read our collection of mythical and humorous facts about
Linus Torvalds. This time around, we will give tribute to another
living legend by the name of Richard M. Stallman. Since this free
software evangelist has tons of loyal fans, it didn't take long for me
to gather some of the whimsical facts that are being said about him.
Here are some of my favorites:

1. Richard Stallman doesn't use web browsers, he sends a link to a
demon that uses wget to fetch the page and sends it back to him.

2. Richard Stallman is the only man alive who can pronounce GNU the
way it is meant to be pronounced.

3. Richard Stallman doesn't read web pages. They write to him.

4. Some people check their computers for viruses. Viruses check their
computers for Richard Stallman.

5. Richard Stallman's beard is made of parentheses.

6. Richard Stallman's nervous system is completely wireless.

7. Richard Stallman wrote the compiler God used. The Big Bang was the
Universe's first segfault.

8. Some people wear Linus Torvalds pyjama's to bed, Linus Torvalds
wears RMS pyjama's.

9. RMS once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45
minutes coding a new Emacs elisp extension.

10. Richard Stallman has no mother, he coded himself.

11. Richard Stallman has created the singularity, but since he usually
works without an internet connection it won't be apparent for another
two weeks.

12. Richard Stallman doesn't wget, Richard Stallman wdemands!

13. Richard Stallman has no problem using emacs. He wrote it with his 4 hands.

14. Richard Stallman never showers: he runs 'make clean'.

15. Richard Stallman released his own DNA under GNU FDL.

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