@vagnes @rysiek IMO if you're the guy with beard in the comic, you shouldn't use ms office in the first place, if you want to tell others to stop sending you .doc files.

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 07:30

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 07:30

@Wolf480pl @rysiek haha, true

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2018, 07:31

**rysiek ✅** @rysiek@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2018, 07:31

@vagnes @Wolf480pl you guys are waaay overthinking that one. ;)

**Wolf480pl** @Wolf480pl@niu.moe · Apr 09, 2018, 07:33

**Wolf480pl** @Wolf480pl@niu.moe · Apr 09, 2018, 07:33

@rysiek @vagnes maybe.
My original point was that maybe we need to improve the way we're trying to convince people not to send us .doc files.
Maybe you've boosted the comic because it was funny, but IMO it points out an error in our advocacy.

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 07:36

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 07:36

@Wolf480pl @rysiek

**Punished Heavens Feel** @heavensfeel@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:42

**Punished Heavens Feel** @heavensfeel@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:42

@vagnes I feel your pain. I use openoffice (in part b/c I support open source, and in part because it's free). I always have to tell my clients to submit their document in an older form of word in order for me to be able to look at the doc.

**nepfag** @nepfag@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:52

**nepfag** @nepfag@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:52

@vagnes >open-source
You're part of the problem. It's called Free Software.

**EndOfFile** @endoffile@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:58

**EndOfFile** @endoffile@pl.smuglo.li · Apr 09, 2018, 19:58

@nepfag @vagnes >Free Software
It's libre you microsoft shill
stallman_yells_at_cloud.jpg

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 20:08

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 20:08

@endoffile @nepfag *screams via GNU Womb's grab-url-from-mail utility as an email-based proxy*

**Jaxom Kaplan** @jaxom@mammout.bzh · Apr 09, 2018, 21:54

**Jaxom Kaplan** @jaxom@mammout.bzh · Apr 09, 2018, 21:54

@vagnes What does the violin mean, though ?

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 22:48

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 22:48

@jaxom
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sad-violin I suppose

**Jaxom Kaplan** @jaxom@mammout.bzh · Apr 10, 2018, 08:00

**Jaxom Kaplan** @jaxom@mammout.bzh · Apr 10, 2018, 08:00

@vagnes Oh, right.

**Mona Drafter ⚥** @mona@cybre.space · Apr 09, 2018, 22:39

**Mona Drafter ⚥** @mona@cybre.space · Apr 09, 2018, 22:39

@vagnes can I hate both sides in this?

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 22:45

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 09, 2018, 22:45

@mona
NO, it has to be polarised and divisive!

**Eric Tapen** @erictapen@chaos.social · Apr 09, 2018, 23:10

**Eric Tapen** @erictapen@chaos.social · Apr 09, 2018, 23:10

@vagnes
Now that I reread this #xkcd I'm wondering what the last panel is referring to. I used to think it's about dedication to useless ideas, because advocating free software didn't work.
Now I got, that the gesture of playing the tiny violin also stands for money. Can anybody explain the joke to me?

**Eric Tapen** @erictapen@chaos.social · Apr 09, 2018, 23:27

**Eric Tapen** @erictapen@chaos.social · Apr 09, 2018, 23:27

@vagnes
Oh, it has an entirely different meaning
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldsSmallestViolin

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 10:46

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 10:46

@vagnes Yeah but who was the figurehead of this? A man who eats skin off his own feet, and discusses nasal sex with dead plants at Texas Instruments to the point where he's never invited back.

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 10:48

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 10:48

@vagnes https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

""One of them said he was upset when you talked about nasal sex with plants." I had actually demonstrated this perverse act with the bouquet on the table, at dinner the night before I was sent home. The plants were dead, although well preserved, so I was performing rhinophytonecrophilia on them. "

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 10, 2018, 12:07

**mathias** @vagnes · Apr 10, 2018, 12:07

@kichimi I don't think that was the point xkcd was trying to make.

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 12:14

**kichimi** @kichimi@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 10, 2018, 12:14

@vagnes I know, but it's still a valid point, its easy to dismiss someone who is literally a nutcase as a nutcase on serious topics. Marketing wouldn't exist if everyone on the planet worked on pure logic.

**ol' Kid Astro** @astro@mstdn.io · Apr 17, 2018, 18:22

**ol' Kid Astro** @astro@mstdn.io · Apr 17, 2018, 18:22

@vagnes Every day of my life has been this kind of I-told-you-so but of course people blame me for getting angry at the fact that their slow-ass fun-having petri dish of a lifestyle continually impacts me