The joke is that rms is really upset about people calling Linux an operating system and thinks Linux distros should be called GNU/Linux, a position he hasn't gotten a lot of people to support him on.

I don't understand the downvotes. Is there something wrong with asking questions?

I don't think Stallman himself would like to waste his time on HN :p

Pretty hard to use HN through wget.

you can use lynx: http://lynx.isc.org/

You could, but he chooses not to.

I saw an article recently in which he said he'd started using a text based browser. At this rate he'll be using Iceweasel by around 2030...

"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser..."

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html