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48 comments

1. # Posted by Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves on Jul 31st, 2007 at 5:53 pm

   Yep, you got that right. 100%.

2. # Posted by Rich on Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:01 pm

   Warning: Recursive comic
   Stack overflow, core dumped.

3. # Posted by Robert Hulme on Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:02 pm

   bwhaha!

4. # Posted by ysth on Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:14 pm

   What the bleep is RMS doing with my monitor? I thought that was packed away in the basement.

5. # Posted by Tim Fuchs on Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:30 pm

   Now that is a meta joke.

6. # Posted by cg on Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pm

   Great!
   So the second was actually 240… :D

7. # Posted by Dan on Jul 31st, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   It’s the Liar Paradox in joke form… it’s funny because he said it wasn’t funny. But if he had said it *was* funny, it would have been stupid.

   I like it. :)

8. # Posted by Javier__C on Jul 31st, 2007 at 9:51 pm

   Finally! I was checking each and every day to see if there was a new strip.

   Loved it, BTW :D

9. # Posted by Javier__C on Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:03 pm

   But why on Earth would rms have a Linspire sticker on his monitor?

10. # Posted by Kevin Dean on Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Thanks for keeping them coming. :)

11. # Posted by Kevin Dean on Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    @ Javier

    That’s Raymond’s monitor. It’s as likely that he’d live with him as use his monitor…

    And we all know RMS uses a laptop anyway.

12. # Posted by Anonymous on Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Thanks a lot – it was quite hard to wait for such a long time :-(
    Can you explain again how we could help you making a new strip?

13. # Posted by Javier__C on Jul 31st, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    @ kevin

    But Raymond uses Ubuntu, wich has some non-free software. Think about it, I’m sure rms would refuse to use it at all.

14. # Posted by MohammedN on Aug 1st, 2007 at 5:09 am

    It took you some time, didn’t it?? Why oh why???

15. # Posted by Johannes Kekkonen on Aug 1st, 2007 at 6:04 am

    Hehehe! Ok, we were asking for it. =)

16. # Posted by Seraphyn on Aug 1st, 2007 at 9:48 am

    And i thougth you would like to go Offline… Thanks for the new ELER…
    Seraphyn

17. # Posted by anonymous coward on Aug 1st, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Recursive comic!? Awesome!

18. # Posted by ERM on Aug 1st, 2007 at 11:31 am

    @Javier__C

    Last I heard, wasn’t he on the board of Linspire?

19. # Posted by jaywok on Aug 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    in soviet russia, rms hovers over esr’s shoulder!

20. # Posted by wjv on Aug 1st, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    Is it me, or is that an old Amiga monitor?

21. # Posted by Silverlokk on Aug 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    ELER’s RSS-enabled. — That’s for those of you who visit in vain every day for an update. RSS will take care of informing you when there’s a new comic.

22. # Posted by ysth on Aug 1st, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    But we just come for the comments…

23. # Posted by Hubert Łepicki on Aug 1st, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    A good one. Good answer to all of those who were waiting for another eler! And the punchline is not bad. Recursive comics rock ;).

24. # Posted by mpasternak on Aug 1st, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    do some GPL3 strips, mon

25. # Posted by steve urkel on Aug 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    some ideas:
    1) something GPL3;
    2) even better: something about the invitation of linus by sun/schwartz and the together cooking;

26. # Posted by aaa on Aug 3rd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Surely a scheduler debate comic. ESR must support a scheduler that prioritises whoever he is shilling for today.

27. # Posted by stupid on Aug 3rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    WTF?

28. # Posted by Javier__C on Aug 3rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    @ ERM

    He wouldn’t…

29. # Posted by Johannes Kekkonen on Aug 5th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    @wjv: Yes, it’s a Commodore 1084 monitor. It was used with Amigas and C64/C128s.

30. # Posted by Jim Thompson on Aug 6th, 2007 at 3:10 am

    Can we have “Fake ESR” now, or is that too much like a double negative?

31. # Posted by Michael Andrews on Aug 7th, 2007 at 12:17 am

    It’s the third frame that makes the punchline work. The timing is just perfect. It’s still cracking me up.

32. # Posted by Barnaby on Aug 7th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    yeah, it really is the third frame that makes it work.

33. # Posted by ElB on Aug 9th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    More than worth the wait. \m/

34. # Posted by jOe Caml on Aug 10th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    The next comic should be,
    er: “Is there a new strip yet?”
    rms: “Hold on, let me check!”
    …
    …
    rms: “No.”

35. # Posted by King Hajj on Aug 11th, 2007 at 12:02 am

    The next ELER *has* to be about the SCO v. Novell lawsuit.

36. # Posted by Jim Thompson on Aug 12th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    No it doesn’t. SCO .v Novell was a blip.

    The next ELER has to be about the update to “Sex Tips for Geeks” and a new essay titled, “Surprised by irrelevance.”

    ESR turns 50 on Dec 4.
    Balmer turned 50 last year.
    Gates turned 50 in October of 2005
    McNeally turned 50 in 2004

    Linus turns 38 on Dec 28.
    Alan Cox turns 40 next year.

37. # Posted by Pete Zaitcev on Aug 14th, 2007 at 5:22 am

    I expected a strip about Con Colinas slamming the door on kernel because his worldview was distorted by the cheerleading squad. It was so juicy, a perfect opportunity to accentuate the shallow.

38. # Posted by Shawn on Aug 16th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    everything i want to say has been said.

39. # Posted by Enough is enough on Aug 16th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    This calls for a fork. For new ELER strips please go to eler.novel.com.

40. # Posted by Who? on Aug 17th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Wouldn’t that person be Con Kolivas?

41. # Posted by Rich S. on Aug 20th, 2007 at 3:05 am

    Keep ‘em comin’.

42. # Posted by Me on Aug 24th, 2007 at 10:02 am

    How something about this :
    Microsoft Axes ‘Get The Facts’
    tom66 writes “Seems like a long time coming, as Microsoft today has axed it’s Anti-Linux campaign ‘Get the Facts’, and Microsoft has replaced it with a new campaign, called ‘compare’. This article touches up on why they may have done it, and the criticism surrounding Get the Facts.”
    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

43. # Posted by Extreme DANNIS * the nutloaders * on Aug 25th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    Heh heh heh. Well the idea behind it is a bit cheap, but this strip really gave me a hearty chuckle. OH MAN yeeeeaaahhhhh.

44. # Posted by Dude on Aug 27th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    You’re fired.

45. # Posted by Fjord Fjordsen on Aug 27th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    This one wasn’t funny at first but over the weeks it’s been growing on me.

46. # Posted by beeeeeeeen on Aug 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    Bit like fungus really….

47. # Posted by Anonymous on Aug 28th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    It won’t be too much long until you need to re-post this episode :-). Maybe you can swap the heads just to show it’s new.

48. # Posted by wtngfmr on Aug 29th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    http://xkcd.com/45/ :))

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