Richard Stallman's FaceTime intervention

Description

This meme presents a fabricated scenario in the form of a screenshot of a FaceTime call. The main, large image is a low-resolution photo of Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, with his characteristic long hair and beard. A smaller, inset picture shows the person receiving the call. Above the image, text reads: 'this homeless guy found my moms phone and keeps FaceTiming me telling me to stop using non-free software'. The humor is layered for a tech-savvy audience. Firstly, it pokes fun at Stallman's unkempt appearance by misidentifying him as a 'homeless guy'. Secondly, and more importantly, it creates a deeply ironic situation: Stallman, a world-renowned purist who evangelizes for the exclusive use of free and open-source software, is depicted using FaceTime - a proprietary, closed-source application from Apple. The joke lies in the absurdity of him using the very type of software he campaigns against to deliver his message

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Of course Stallman is using FaceTime. He's not using the software, he's performing a security audit on Apple's proprietary video protocols from the inside

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Of course Stallman is using FaceTime. He's not using the software, he's performing a security audit on Apple's proprietary video protocols from the inside
Anonymous

Nothing like a stranger on FaceTime reminding you that your “cloud-agnostic” stack still hinges on one proprietary PushKit entitlement Apple can deprecate during tomorrow’s keynote
Anonymous

The only thing more persistent than a memory leak in production is Stallman explaining why your IDE's license violates your fundamental freedoms - and unlike the memory leak, he won't stop until you've compiled your own kernel
Anonymous

When your production incident escalates to a P0 but the on-call engineer is too busy explaining why your monitoring stack should be running on self-hosted Prometheus instead of Datadog because 'freedom matters more than your SLA.'
Anonymous

RMS's ultimate zero-trust architecture: auditing your proprietary blobs via mom's hijacked iPhone
Anonymous

FaceTiming me to condemn non‑free software - nice; please include the Corresponding Source with that lecture
Anonymous

Preaching software freedom over FaceTime is like pushing GPL via an EULA - great message, hostile transport
@v_kotey 5y

FaceTime isn't free software...
1. @Alex_Helion 5y
  
  That's the point
  
  @Bitals 5y
  
  The point is that guy would die if he touches an iPhone.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
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Deleted Account 5y

ITS STALLMAN
@AnarchistForLife 5y

Based homeless dude
@invaderz_must_die 5y

if only FaceTime was implemented as advertised... https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-facetime-open-source-its-time/