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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Cancer and clean-shavenness aside, I disagree with much of his talk. I don't see making social media (or "anti-social media" as he calls it) illegal is the best solution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Heck's sake, Ballmer hexed that one on Stallman, with all that saying that "Linux is a cancer" and all that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

as cancers go, this one seems better than the usual ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hank Green had something similar and he was in and out within 3-ish months, still recovering and Richard might have it somewhere else but you know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The usual ones aren't so bad, people don't hear much about them because they're so usual and mild.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My dad is recovering from cancer and it was a hard fight, I sincerely wish the best for Stallman.

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