Richard Stallman Freaks Out and Has a Meltdown

I'm not one to sympathize with Stallman's crusade, but I feel for him about this.

As a Brazilian, it shames me that at first they asked him to speak English and halfway through the presentation people asked the coordinator to have him switch to Spanish because they thought they could understand English but in fact they couldn't. And, as we Brazilians don't speak Spanish, I know from experience they'd have a hard time understanding Spanish as well.

There was a total communication failure. The coordinator should have provided translation services as usual in this kind of event.

The audience behaved like animals, the coordinator didn't present any solution and despite the fact the Stallman explicitly asked people not to record and publish videos of his reaction, the fellow that was recording it was unmoved.

A complete shame in all aspects.

A quick explanation of the youtube comments crying "BR BR BR BR" or "HUE HUE HUE HUE" for those who don't know the references:

Brazilians are widely hated in a lot of online communities, especially gaming ones and especially free online games and MOBA genre games. The stereotype is that they will ruin the game for their team/community and then cackle in your face about it (that's the HUE HUE HUE).

An MMO perspective: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b77Eoxl7WQE/TB7YxU3CVSI/AAAAAAAAAA...

The situation was so bad in Heroes of Newerth (a free to play MOBA game) that most of the North American community was begging the team producing the game to make separate South American servers.

Anyway, that's why you see juvenile comments.

Stallman should have politely told the coordinator to go and f##k himself and finished it in English. So did he finish the talk? Respect for him if he did.

Someone probably bought him a parrot or asked about breakfast.