Comment on Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025parentComments−em-bee1ydon't know about nvidia, but it would not surprise me if something like that happened more than once. i finally found the one i was referring to. it was rob pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-cant-find-this-o...some discussion of that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607335 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963456the key part: "At least half the questions (all technical) during and after the talk were from the protesters. [...] as a result of Stallman's ploy, my audience was about twice what it would have been."
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don't know about nvidia, but it would not surprise me if something like that happened more than once. i finally found the one i was referring to. it was rob pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-cant-find-this-o...
some discussion of that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607335 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963456
the key part: "At least half the questions (all technical) during and after the talk were from the protesters. [...] as a result of Stallman's ploy, my audience was about twice what it would have been."