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Re:Time to fork the FSF by mrb on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:16AM (#3087201)
Loon is NOT an adjective that you can apply to Stallman.

  loon
      n 1: a worthless lazy fellow
He is certainly not that. He founded the GNU project. Authored the GPL. Wrote dozens of open source applications. And overall contributed a lot to free software. Choose your words carefully!
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Re:Time to fork the FSF by RobAtticus on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:29AM (#3087222)
Loon is used as slang to mean somebody who is a bit off the wall or crazy, as in that person belongs in the "loony bin" (mental hospital).
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Re:Time to fork the FSF by WalterGR on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:47AM (#3087249)
It's unclear to me why you're being so harshly downvoted. All that's needed is a quick trip to Wiktionary (or your favorite dictionary) to see that you're correct.

EDIT: Well, I should note that you're correct about the definition. I don't know about the etymology.

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Re:Time to fork the FSF by snth on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:48AM (#3087250)
Loon: a silly or foolish person. From my apple dictionary.
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Re:Time to fork the FSF by VonGuard on Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:26AM (#3087305)
It's also a bird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon

The bird does, notably, have better hygiene than RMS.

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Re:Time to fork the FSF by balakk on Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:11AM (#3087283)
I always thought loon was a shortened term for "lunatic". Not that I'm calling RMS one.
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