Re:When Rob Pike first met rms
by icebraining on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:19PM
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I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you visually verify that a person needs a wheelchair?
Considering the sign she had, I think Pike considered the hypothesis that she was using the wheelchair as a "theatrical prop".
Re:When Rob Pike first met rms
by tuxychandru on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:20PM
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The woman was carrying the sign "Patents Cripple Software.". Rob might have thought the wheelchair was symbolic.
I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you visually verify that a person needs a wheelchair?
I also wonder what Pike thinks now that his employer is being sued over the violations of patents in their open source GUI software. The swipe-to-unlock patent strikes me as about as obvious as backing store.