From his website stallman.org:

Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.

Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.

  • Subject6051
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    1 年前

    as cancers go, this one seems better than the usual ones.

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      1 年前

      Hank Green had something similar and he was in and out within 3-ish months, still recovering and Richard might have it somewhere else but you know.

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      1 年前

      The usual ones aren’t so bad, people don’t hear much about them because they’re so usual and mild.

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      It’s incurable but usually has a good long term prognosis (97% 5 year survival rate and most people live 20+ years from diagnosis). Seems that the best RMS will get is remission but not cancer free.