Richard Stallman as Saint IGNUcius (Emacs vs Vi)

I am st. Egon osseous the church of emacs might bless your computer my child he man started out as an extensible text editor program that I had written which became over the years a way of life for many users as it was extended so much they could do all their computing without ever leaving Emacs and then it became a church with the launch of the news group old religion Emacs which you might find amusing to visit in the Church of Emacs we have a great sysm between several rival versions of Emacs and we also have Saints too fortunately no gods instead of God's we adore the one through editor Emacs to be a member of the Church of Emacs you must pronounce the confession of the faith you must say there is no system but glue and Linux is one of its curls then if you become a real expert you can celebrate that with our ceremony the foo bar mitzvah and a portion of our sacred scriptures that is to say the system source code we also have the cult of the version of Emacs which means anyone who has never used Emacs according to the church or wall of Emacs offering reversion the opportunity to Lewis Emacs virginity may bless it Act we also have the Emacs pilgrimage which consists of executing all commands of Emacs in alphabetical order there is it too bettan offshoot of the Church of Emacs which claims that it's sufficient to execute these commands automatically under the control of the script but the mainstream Church holds that to gain spiritual merit from the pilgrimage you must type the bike then surgeon v-max has certain advantages compared with other churches I won't name for instance being a saint in the Church of Emacs does not require celibacy what it does require living a life of moral purity you must exercise whatever evil proprietary operating systems have possessed computers under your control or set up for your regular use and then install a wholly free operating system and then use an install exclusively free software with and on the system if you make this vow and you live by it than you we'll be a saint if you have the right to wear a halo if you can find one because they don't make them anymore there is a traditional rivalry between Emacs and text-editor VI so people sometimes ask me whether in a church of emacs using the AI is a sin it's true that VI VI VI is the editor of the Beast using a free implementation of the eye is not a sin but a penance in May I went to China and some VI users proposed getting together to attack me I was shocked but apparently violence begins with VI people sometimes asked whether my halo is really an old computer disk this is no computer businesses by halo but it was a computer disk in a previous existence thank you it's time for the auction this is an adorable you know that needs a home cause I'm going to auction it for the benefit of the Free Software Foundation if you buy it I can sign the card for you if you have a penguin at home you need to get it new for your penguin as we all know and with it hardly function when you bid please wave your arm and shout the amount so I can hear you make sure I notice you you might want to come down closer if you're interested in bidding but you don't have to we can accept payments in cash or using a bank card if it can make international purchases by phone or with Bitcoin if you have something here to make payment with well you'll have time to go to a cash machine and get money out and go back while I answer questions I'm going to start with a regular price which is 20 euros do I get 20 heroes how much about 25 do I get 30 I've got 50 do I hear 55 hi I have a 65 you said okay I can hear you very well boy that's empty I've got one zwei do I get one Rudy so I get 130 fishing tours do I get 130 into the Free Software Foundation event freedom do I have 113 between the last chance to bid 130 or more for the securable doubles last chance you've been 130 or more to the Free Software Foundation to defend your freedom best chance going going gone for 120

Channel: Eugenio Scacchetti

Views: 54,822

Keywords: RMS, Richard, Stallman, Saint, IGNUcius, Church, Emacs, Church of Emacs, Vi, Editor, Text, GNU, Linux, Modena, Computer Science, Informatica, University, Università, College, Italy, Richard Stallman (Organization Leader), Editor War

Id: 1jPmnDZ6ab8

Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 25 2014