RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina 386
New submitter Progman3K writes "Richard Stallman, father of the FSF, had his bag containing his laptop, medicine, money and passport stolen after his talk at the University of Buenos Aires on Friday, June 8." Adds reader jones_supa, excerpting from the same linked story: "As a result of this occurrence, he was forced to cancel his talk in Cordoba, and it's still unknown how this will impact the rest of his speaking engagements throughout the world."
FIRST POST (Score:5, Funny)
Passports want to be free.
Sigh. (Score:5, Funny)
Free as in steal it.
Re:Sigh. (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, no his passport was "open sourced"
Re:Sigh. (Score:4, Funny)
Much better analogy would be he keeps his stuff but copies must be freely redistributed with the source.
Re:Sigh. (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if someone took he speeches, did his speech, and collected the pay for that speech, he would be fine with that.
Donning flameproof underwear in 3...2....1 (Score:5, Funny)
Whichever Argentinian stole it is probably claiming that it is theirs as a result of their ancestor looking after the cow that the bag was made from between 1828 and 1832.....
Such a loss... (Score:5, Funny)
What a loss, the only laptop running Gnu Hurd. The individual who stole it will be very sorry though, as he will be forced to use emacs, and as it does everything, it will be the only program on the computer... :D
Re:Sigh. (Score:4, Funny)
help! (Score:4, Funny)
quick - someone lend him a windows laptop.
That's enough (Score:4, Funny)
Okay, that's enough Linus. It's simply not funny any more. Hand it back now.
RMS? (Score:4, Funny)
Who steals from wizards? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sigh. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but only if they contributed back any ad-lib comments they made.
Re:Sigh. (Score:3, Funny)
I think he would like that. The man seems to be all about getting his message out.
Wouldn't a tee shirt saying "I'm unrealistic and naive to the point of being a nut-bag" lessen his carbon footprint considerably?
Re:No news – Happens all the time (Score:5, Funny)
I think we have a suspect
Re:FIRST POST (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't this one of the old internet scams?
Please Help! I'm on vacation in a strange country and had my wallet stolen, please send $$ to my address: scammer23@aol.com to help me get home!
Re:FIRST POST (Score:4, Funny)