Stallman speaks English, French, Spanish, and “somewhat flawed” Indonesian. — certainly he could not understand the difference in Japanese between that and saying that the two are unrelated?
That is what I inferred, but it seems a bit ungentlemanly to jump to that conclusion after merely picking “GNU” and “gnuplot” up in a sentence and nothing more, which is what most likely happened.
In context of adding burden of having someone to translate for you in Japanese, the statement he made seems good enough and to the point.
Maybe you are far too pre-assumtpive that there was any ill effect, or even ill intent, in the statement being made, especially if the same fact is accounted for in gnuplot FAQ.
You can have a very low level of understanding in a language, as in no more than a few hours of experience, and understand what people are talking about. You don't get the details or have the most basic conversation, but you can piece together the few words you understand.
It is a cautionary tale: never assume that because someone doesn't speak your language, he won't get it if you are bad mouthing him.
Here "blah blah, Stallman, blah GNU blah blah gnuplot" is enough for some not skilled in blah to understand what is going on.
Indonesia is a big and varied country, with some delightful food, amazing scenery and incredible historical sites (e.g. borobudur).
Other than anything else, I think your rather vile comment says more about you than Stallman or any other visitor to Indonesia.
The kind of very thinly veiled accusation you are making has a habit of sticking - it might be wise before making comments like this if you first imagine how you would feel if someone made a baseless accusation like this about you.
Which is weird because Indonesia is not known for sex tourism. Westerners do not come to Indonesia for sex as there are other sex tourism friendly countries out there. Middle-easterners might come to Indonesia for sex by exploiting a legal loophole (contract marriages), but it's a very minor operation compared to other more legitimate tourism activities. It is a major source of sex trafficking though.
