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| DATE | 2008-04-01 |
| FROM | From: "Michael L. Richardson"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] This is just wrong
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Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> this is just wrong
>
> http://gbgames.com/blog/2008/04/richard-stallman-finds-love-through-world-of-warcraft/
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> "
> Richard Stallman Finds Love Through World of Warcraft
> RMS is known for his promotion of Free Software, or maybe more so for
> his disdain of non-Free, proprietary software. So it came as a
> surprise to many visitors to the GNU home page to see an announcement
> not asking for a call to arms against software patents or so-called
> DRM, but to say that he was getting married.
>
> What makes the news surprising? He found his soon-to-be wife by
> playing World of Warcraft.
>
> RMS, the founder of the Free Software movement, playing WoW?
>
> At first, I didn't want anything to do with WoW, but as I found more
> and more of the people I knew playing it, I had to look into it. Since
> this entertainment seems to distract so many people from otherwise
> being productive at the Free Software Foundation, I thought perhaps if
> we tried to create a free alternative, it would remind people of our
> mission.
>
> …
>
> It was a few days later when I realized that I was really hungry. I
> hadn't eaten! This game was dangerous! But I just had to keep playing.
> Well, it was for research for the free alternative we would create
> later, of course.
>
> Within weeks, he had participated in a few raids as his Paladin,
> rms53, and that's when he met Tybressa, the Priestess.
>
> I began each session as I always did, by telling everyone about the
> values of free software, hoping to recruit people into developing the
> free alternative. Tybressa at first didn't seem to understand what
> freedoms I was talking about. I think she thought it was an
> in-character game thing! We spent the next few hours walking and
> talking…well, virtually, I mean. She lives in San Francisco, and I
> live in Boston. Still, it was as if we had known each other forever.
>
> Since that time, they always make sure to login at the same time.
> Tybressa, who is actually 54-year-old Sheila Chesil, has been playing
> WoW since the MMORPG was launched. She has been helping RMS get the
> hang of the game as well as providing companionship.
>
> I don't know. I just felt like he was a very nice newbie, and I always
> try to help them out. When he started going on about freedom, I
> thought he was role-playing, and so I played along. Since then, we've
> been inseparable.
>
> Chesil had arranged to meet RMS at a protest he was organizing, and
> they have made it a point to meet each other every month.
>
> Asked about his opinion on WoW as a proprietary piece of
> entertainment, RMS said, "Well, the FSF has never really focused on
> entertainment too heavily, and at least in my case, I have found a new
> life partner through it, so it can't be that bad."
>
> The marriage will take place in Azeroth, although no date has been set yet.
>
> Bradley M. Kuhn, former executive director of the FSF, was not aware
> of RMS' pending wedding. "I was a bit worried when he wouldn't come to
> meetings he had scheduled with the Software Freedom Law Center. I
> guess the guy had other priorities."
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