Attacking Freenode sent a chilling effect through many communities that would gladly not deal with your infantile rampage backed by what I'll assume is ill-gotten gains.
I've been known as 'imode' for a couple of years now.
I called out Lee, and he took my nickname away. There are already abuses of power going on, and he has no legal authority over any of the infrastructure.
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): Information on imode (account imode):
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): Registered : Oct 05 03:45:24 2016 (4y 32w 6d ago)
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): Last seen : (about 0 weeks ago)
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): Flags : HideMail, Private
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): imode has enabled nick protection
- NickServ (NickServ@services.): *** End of Info ***
- You are now known as imode
You're still in services DB and I'm able to use your nick. The "temporarily unavailable" error is literally that; your nick was probably recently protected by services, in which case you'd have to `/ns release` for it back.
Stallman is looking more like FOSS' Stalin every day. There's no technical justification or even an overtly ethical one to use GCC over libclang, Stallman's ego just needs stroking every couple of years.
I long for the day that he stops making decisions.
I would say he is looking more like Lenin than Stalin: Having some ideal in his mind that he will apply no matter what. And people giving him authority like a God, everything depending on his opinion.
Lenin had his perfect idea on his mind, that did not work in the real work, he exterminated most farmers that opposed its perfect system and made tens of millions of people starve, producing way less food than in the WWI(usually as you end a war your production goes up a lot). All because in his mind, it was perfect.
Stallman is in a similar position with some people venerating him and using him as Messiah of the Pure Free software movement. But no single man is perfect or omniscient.
