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12/19/2004

A tale of two lunches

Recently in his blog JWZ posted about the FSF's promotion of getting 3 people to sign up and as a reward/incentive they will have with Richard Stallman (aka RMS) or Eben Moglen record personalized greeting on your answering machine.

Now keeping in mind that JWZ is the man behind XEmacs which is a fork of Emacs which Stallman wrote, and that this posting was on JWZ's site, there was a lot of funny comments about the answering machine message and Stallman in general.

But one response that cracked me up was this one where the write describes going to lunch with RMS and the hilarity that ensued. After reading it I thought to myself that the story sounded familiar. That's when I remembered reading this story about a visit by RMS to a company to give a speech. It is amazing to read these stories, one written by a JWZ fan and the other by an RMS fan, about the same situation (leaving the tip on a lunch bill) and seeing each persons' take on the situation. One person thinks its witty, the other thinks its asinine.

I wasn't sure about what I thought of that until I plugged in a search to A9 and saw (search for the word "tip") this. Having worked for tips in the past I'd be pissed if someone did that to me thinking it was funny.

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