Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference

Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by tree_of_item on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:36PM (#3955161)

Shit. I hope he's okay, it's difficult to tell what happened through the lens of Google Translate. Anyone have more information?

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by andos on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:23PM (#3955433)

My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that:

- Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike;

- he asked the staff for medical assistance;

- meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood;

- the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled;

- after being attended by the medical staff, he was well enough to walk out of the building;

- no further details on his health.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by Nrsolis on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:57PM (#3955645)

Of course, the big question is whether the firmware in the EKG machine was open or not.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by carols10cents on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:52PM (#3955955)

I seriously wonder if medical care done by proprietary devices with proprietary software is something that he would object to!

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by narag on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:09AM (#3958337)

Your Spanish is not so rusty after all :-)

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by kzar on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:49PM (#3955216)

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by drewmclellan on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:08PM (#3955333)

Glad he's okay.

Let's hope the hospital doesn't offer him breakfast.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by metamattl on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:14PM (#3955366)

matt from the fsf here -- i spoke to the person with him at the hospital, he's fine. they're doing some routine tests now.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by cperciva on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:48PM (#3955587)

At least he probably doesn't need to worry about the hospital buying him a parrot.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by rbanffy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:34PM (#3955492)

If the server feels unhappy with the extra https traffic, the http://www.fsf.org/news/richard-stallman-speech-in-barcelona... link works OK.

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by hluska on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:14PM (#3956065)

My Spanish is equally rusty, but this (English language) article seems to have conveyed the main points:

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Re:Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference by skeletonjelly on Thursday May 10, 2012 @07:11PM (#3956642)

What's ambiguous about him falling ill due to a "power surge"?

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