{"id":38,"date":"2008-05-10T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/richard-stallman-does-bizarre-things\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T17:07:21","slug":"richard-stallman-does-bizarre-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/richard-stallman-does-bizarre-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stallman Does Bizarre Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.  (I also have not[sic] net connection much of the time.)  To look at page[sic] I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time[sic], but it is slow in real time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/262570\/\">Richard Stallman, 15 Dec 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How in touch with regular people do you think that guy is?  How well do you think a system he designed would server their needs?  How well do you think it would serve <em>your<\/em> needs?  (I mean I think it&#8217;s pretty fair to say you use the internet a bit more &#8230; shall we say &#8230; <em>functionally<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/04\/spray_on_usability\">GNU\/Linux can&#8217;t even meet a hardcore nerd&#8217;s needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not[sic] net connection much of the time.) To look at page[sic] I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time[sic], but it is slow in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","category-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}