From his website stallman.org:
Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.
Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.
cancer is bloat
Unknown proprietary blobs intervening his free-functioning body
My dad is recovering from cancer and it was a hard fight, I sincerely wish the best for Stallman.
*GNU+cancer
I have a hard time deciding what to do with this.
On the one hand… Dude, even as someone who loves dark humour, I couldn’t bring myself to make a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis unless the person was a true shitstain on the earth, like Trump.
On the other hand…that was fucking brilliant and works on so many levels.
I had pretty much the same thought process.
It’s dark, but brilliant.
Yet I can’t imagine RMS being offended by this, so I shouldn’t either.
That’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t be too surprised to hear from the guy himself.The world is a better place because of him and I wish him well.
That’s a terrible joke that deserves the downvotes, because cancer is shit and I only wish the best to anyone who is diagnosed with it, but I laughed.
Is he accepting medical treatments that require non-free software? Serious question, from what I know of him he would rather die. I don’t know if that changes when you’re actually faced with it though.
Software freedom applies only to hardware you personally own. It wouldn’t even apply to machines you interact with but do not own (such as ATMs or kiosks) since you aren’t the one who agrees to the proprietary software license.
Stallman himself explains it in his computing FAQ.
