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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by vasco on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:11AM (#37701536)
I'd bet there will be a blockbuster movie about this guy within 10 years of him dying and it'll be in the pop culture, and maybe even stoke a temporary privacy / freedom focus for a while in common consciousness.

Unfortunately the world doesn't know how to really appreciate people as much when they're alive for some personality types.

Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by sulam on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:22AM (#37701607)
I'll take the other side of that bet.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by paulcole on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:50AM (#37702428)
Hammering the under on # of blockbuster Richard Stallman biopics is free money.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by gcanyon on Friday September 29, 2023 @08:28AM (#37702904)
Agreed, but only because of the word "blockbuster," as there will be approximately zero of those within the 10 years (at least) the GP is proposing.

I don't know for sure what the movie business will look like in 10 years, but one possibility is that everyone is able to create their own movies just by describing them, and a small number will say some variant of, "Give me a biopic of this Richard Stallman guy. Base it on his wikipedia entry and whatever else you know about him. Make it factual but an action neo-noir; you know what I like. Probably starring an amalgam of Bogart and Mitchum, the rest you can just make up."

Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by johnnyanmac on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:37PM (#37706686)
I mean, there are multiple Snowden films. I guess it depends on if you need it to be Oppenheimer levels of budget to be "blockbuster" or not.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by hutzlibu on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:25PM (#37707433)
I would think waaaay more people have heard of Snowden than of RMS. If a movie about RMS will get made, than in the shape of a crowdfunded community project.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by johnnyanmac on Friday September 29, 2023 @02:27PM (#37708285)
Well, yea. Because he metaphorically died in terms of US politics. It's one of the few bipartisan issues that sticks out like a sore thumb to the public eye.

I hope it's far in the future, but we'll see how the media spins it when Stallman dies. They can easily sell him up as some Godfather of computers. Or it can just be a small whimper in the corner of HN. I'd still bet on something closer to the former, but it's not a sure bet.

Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by op00to on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:23AM (#37701612)
Does eating toe jam come in the second or third acts?
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by anatoly on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:40AM (#37701764)
Thing is, you and people like you won't come in any of the acts. Of anything. And that's arguably just.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by op00to on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:21AM (#37702088)
I won't be in the Stallman biopic? Oh no. Boo hoo.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by tmccrary55 on Friday September 29, 2023 @08:06AM (#37702603)
Nick Offerman as Richard Stallman.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by MikeRichardson on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:57AM (#37766119)
Yes.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by bitwize on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:26AM (#37703868)
I keep hoping for a Silicon Valley style dramedy about the open source movement, starring Donal Logue as Stallman and Nick Offerman as ESR.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by edanm on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:04AM (#37705330)
I think you're vastly over indexing in how many people in our circles know about him.

I'd bet less than 10% of professional developers could say who he is, and that a tiny portion of the population has any clue.

There are probably thousands of similarly important/influential people in various subfields that we have never heard of, because they're not our Subfield, and I highly doubt any of those would get a biopic.

Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by oh_sigh on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:05PM (#37706235)
Nah, the world only really cares to hear about techie stories if they make a few billion for themselves.
Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by zingababba on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:46PM (#37709242)
His likeness will be portrayed by a proprietary AI.