<html><head></head><body>I'm on my way to Nottingham now, will probably see you in about half an hour. <br>
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But if we are discussing RMS can we just be clear that I am NOT watching that video of him picking something off his foot. Thanks. <br>
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Fay <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2018 13:17:13 BST, Martin via Nottingham <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 17/05/18 09:54, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 16/05/18 15:50, Martin via Nottingham wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just for fun ( :-P ) for our talk/discussion, we enjoy a real<br> roller-coaster ride to whiz through the fun of how we got to the modern<br> day computing we know today, revelling in the antics of the various Big<br> Boys! We also have the elephant of Social Media, The 'Cloud', and<br> 'others'. And there is also FLOSS...<br></blockquote> <br> Will this include RMS's recent rank-pulling over the maintainers of glibc?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/gnu_glic_abort_stallman/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/gnu_glic_abort_stallman/</a><br> <br> He's a bit like Dawkins in many ways.<br> Smart, almost certainly correct, struggles to engage in a personable manner.<br></blockquote><br>Thanks for that.<br><br>Rather a good/bad one, very sad, and hopefully suitably thought<br>provoking to kick the USA for how they appear to remain Biblically<br>'unbelievable'...<br><br><br>So, a well needed good blast from 26 years ago to hit home today:<br><br>#####<br>You have GNU sense of humor! Glibc abortion 'joke' diff tiff leaves<br>Richard Stallman miffed<br><br>FSF firebrand rails against purged abort() docs 'satire'<br>#####<br><br><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/gnu_glic_abort_stallman/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/gnu_glic_abort_stallman/</a><br><br><br>See:<br><br>Delete abortion joke<br><a href="https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00016.html">https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00016.html</a><br><br>commit reversion without review<br><a href="https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00250.html">https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00250.html</a><br><br><br>Meanwhile we have the real world where very sadly, that joke is still a<br>real world bad joke.<br><br><br>To pick up on some of the other notes in that article, we also very<br>timely have this news snippet this morning:<br><br>How physics gender gap starts in the classroom<br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44141840">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44141840</a><br><br><br>There is also the very unfavourable skew whereby, at least in the UK,<br>the great majority of primary school teachers are all female, whereas<br>the majority of teachers for secondary school are male...<br><br>There is also the aspect that teaching is far far far too lowly valued...<br><br>So...<br><br>Do we really want to wait centuries to get a better more healthy balance?<br><br><br><br>Much more beer needed to fix that one! :-(<br><br>Cheers,<br>Martin<br><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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