Of course there was a grain of truth in the provocation. You very well
could canvass for folks to recruit and/or nominate RMS to speak at
LibrePlanet! I think there were 3, maybe 4 individuals who feel similarly
to you. You can even raise independent funding for it, without conflicts of
interest. A few dollars, a Jitsi link, and off you go.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 9:06 AM <faifl...@danwin1210.de> wrote:
> > I thought it made sense that if a number of people want RMS to speak at
> LibrePlanet, they should either a) campaign to recruit and/or nominate him
> to speak there,
>
> None of that is true, actually. You're completely lying now, hoping for a
> sucker. All anyone needs to do is go to the lieplanet mailing list to
> witness the snippets of truth that have forged through the mire.
>
> > or else b) organize a new conference.
>
> Conference... The open sores people and Microsoft Lienux Foundation sure
> do love their conferences. It lets them feel powerful and recognised for
> what amounts to little more than treachery.
>
> There is so much more to organise than a new conference.
>
>
> > But you've certainly taken that and run with it, haven't you.
>
> You're putting the cart before the horse. I was running with this well
> before you and your goons got your pom-poms out for this particular farce.
>
>
>
>
> The following is a list of awards Stallman has received.
>
> Awards are nothing (though the Takeda award was worth $1m I guess)
> compared to the deeds that earned them.
>
> The real award is a lifetime of accomplishment and (mostly) making
> progress. It will be up to the next generation to carry that forward, but
> the people who really care about that goal will always give Stallman his
> due.
>
> Those who tried to undo him in one fell swoop will now try to beat him
> piece-by-piece, but they don't understand that Stallman is already
> immortal.
>
> Take a look, pretenders to the throne. Here is the un-earned recognition
> you backstabbers seek-- burn in your envy of this person you try to
> minimise:
>
>
>
> 1986: Honorary lifetime membership in the Chalmers Computer Society.
> Mentioned in the announcement of a talk at the Chalmers University of
> Technology. (Archived)
> 1990: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius Grant"). McArthur
> Fellows Class of 1990. (Archived)
> 1990: The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the
> development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
> (Archived)
> 1996: Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden’s Royal Institute of
> Technology. (Archived)
> 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award. (Archived)
> 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.
> 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic
> Well-Being. (Archived)
> 2001: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Glasgow.
> (Archived)
> 2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership.
> (Archived)
> 2003: Doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
> (Archived)
> 2003: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de
> Ingeniería del Perú (UNI). Mentioned in the
> announcement of a talk at the same university in 2008.
> 2004: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Salta,
> Argentina. (Archived)
> 2004: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del
> Perú. (Not found on line)
> 2005: Fondazione Pistoletto prize. Reported in Il Sole 24 Ore
> newspaper (Archived). Reported in an FSF blog post (Archived).
> 2007:Honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la
> Vega, Perú.
> 2007: First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre,
> Spain. (Archived)
> 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Los Angeles de
> Chimbote, Perú. (Not found on line)
> 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Pavia, Italy.
> 2008: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de
> Trujillo, Perú. (Not found on line)
> 2009: Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University,
> Canada. (Archived)
> 2011: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de
> Córdoba, Argentina. (Archived)
> 2012: Honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de
> Trujillo, Perú. (Not found on line)
> 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Latinoamericana
> Cima de Tacna, Perú. (Archived)
> 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad José Faustino
> Sanchez Carrión, Perú. (Not found on line)
> 2013: Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. (Archived)
> 2014: Doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University, Canada.
> (Archived)
> 2015: Doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas, Perú.
> (Not found on line)
> 2016: The ACM Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler
> Collection. (Archived)
> 2016: Doctorate honoris causa awarded jointly by the Université Pierre
> et Marie Curie and Paris-Sorbonne, France.
> 2016: Social Medicine award, from GNU Solidario. (Archived)
> 2017: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy,
> Argentina. (Archived)
> 2018: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Tucumán,
> Argentina.
> (Archived)
> 2018: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
> de Mendoza, Argentina. Announced in Los Andes
> newspaper. (Archived)
>
>
> But again-- this all pales in comparison to the establishment of free
> software as a movement.
>
> You owe this man a debt of gratitude and you repay him by walking all over
> him.
>
>
>
> What you fail to understand is that the world now owes YOU a debt, in
> kind. You'll always have that hanging over your heads. Enjoy.
>
>
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