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Some favorite photos

Please look in the Photos directory and email rms at gnu period org with the URLs of your favorites. Please give the path to the full size image and not the web page the image resides in. No more than three photos per person please.

Favorites from another reader

Portrays the struggle that a true prophet free software has to go through to be widely accepted.

A shirt with multitudes of colors (and here I thought you only wore red polos!).

The trees in front and the ruins at the back really go well together, Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.

Favorites from Andrew

At first glance, this looked like some kind of post-apocalyptic scene (though somewhat cheerier) where a wandering wizard hacks away at one of the few surviving computers. It made me think: if there was some great and terrible apocalypse, how *would* computing eventually reemerge? On the foundation of free software. All those unfree operating systems and applications would be impossible to use. Only free software would give mankind the ability and freedom to recreate society because only free software gives mankind all of the possibilities.

This picture conjures of thoughts of a wandering Alpine bard, or some sort of fantasy wizard. The placement of the bag suggests a deep-thinking gyrovague. I could see this picture as the cover for a fantasy novel, or for the reflections of a world-spanning, intrepid wanderer. Or perhaps a technodruid! I get a deep sense of freedom in this picture, intermixed with echoes of ancient times.

I was instantly reminded of the famous picture of a young Walt Whitman . (I just googled this, so no endorsement of the site). From this picture I get a sense of a bright light shining within. I think we all have it (metaphorically of course) - but many of us do not let it shine out for others to see. This picture is a marvelous microcosm of life - - CDs and digital cameras, paper books on math and technology, political buttons and even baseball cards. And there are you in the middle, as if about to speak, as if there was a bright truth constantly bubbling up inside you that you couldn't stop sharing.

Favorites from Marcelo

Favorites from Dylan

Favorites choosen by Fabio

Another set of Favorites

Favorites from Peter Wiehe

Favorites from p Valdés

Favorites from Marco Cecchetti

A Favorite from Wilbert

A Favorite from Emmanuel

Favorites from Rachael

Another set of favorites

Arjun likes:

SF Bay

Joe Maille likes this view of the SF Bay.

Another set.

Beneet likes:

More Favorites

Stefan Weise like:

Because of the mix of buttons, books and the old computer hardware.

It looks like if you don't care where you are. Very concentrated.

just funny

even dogs are interested in free software

just for the friendly facial expression

also for the facial expression

Another readers's Favorites

Mattias Andrée prefers:

Another readers's Favorites

Carlos Contreras picked out these three photos.

Computers in Natural Settings

Another reader expressed a preference for computers in natural settings for showing "mutually supportive people living in harmony and empathy and mutual support.; deprived of neither nature nor ("appropriate") technology, of neither privacy/individuality, nor of communitarian and social needs."

And one not working.

At work.

At work on a laptop.

Favorite from another reader

"Well, I liked this photo (because you put computers and nature,it's important, it's a message of freedom for me.)"

Another reader's favorites

Another set of favorites

Here are collection of some of the favorite photos picked by readers (with caption provide by the person who suggested the photo).

Roy Guadalupe (roy_gs at yahoo dot com) says this is his favorite photo

Photos of me

Another person's favorite.

And their runner up.

And their runner up.

RMS woking, GNU sticker covering IBM Logo.

RMS outside on a lush rocky hill with his laptop.

Playing a recorder with a cockatiel on his head.

RMS seated working with an OLPC.

A hallowed profile shot of him at the Vatican holding an assumably free software laptop.

Another photo of St. IGNUcius at the Vatican blessing a bystander's computer.

Photos taken by me

A small kid covering a wise-looking statue's mouth. It is cute.

Makes a very good gNewSense background.

More pictures from another reader

(serait pas mal comme fond d'écran)

(pour le cadrage original)

(On dirait que la structure métallique essaie d'imiter l'oiseau.)

(Un beau panorama)

(Beau paysage avec des champs en terrasse(?) )

(Encore de belles couleurs)

(Encore un chouette paysage, il y en a plein dans cette série)

(Celui là c'est sans doute celui que je préfère, la couleur de l'eau est étrange ça fait penser à de la soie)

(J'adore les arbres, en plus de GNU bien sûr)

(J'adore toujours les arbres)

(une photo nocturne)

(photo de canal)

(un groupe de trad-rock)

(un beau jardin)

(Pas mal comme cadre pour pianoter)

(Ouah, la caisse !)

(parce que c'est en Bretagne)

(une belle ruelle)

Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Richard Stallman

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