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.
I don’t get the joke :c
Cancer is absolute shit, but I do also love dark humour (when I get it lawl)
It’s a reference to a copypasta.
Aha! Thank you for the context!
It’s also a reference to Steve Ballmer from Microsoft calling Linux a cancer