Lodragandraoidh's Journal: ATT begat USL; USL begat Novell; Novell begat Sco...

Sco begat Caldera; Caldera renamed Sco; Sco shat on Linux.

Somewhere in there USL begat BSD; BSD broke free.

Things continue to look dark. The totalitarian internet dictatorship enterprise (TIDE) is rising swiftly now. How long will it last? Will we survive it? What of our children? I remember, as a child, having fantasies of surviving a nuclear holocaust. I would pack all of my 'survival gear' into my backpack, food, extra clothes, gear (my trusty compass and swiss army knife), as well as books that I thought important to preserve ('Alas Babylon', 'Lucifer's Hammer' et al). Things never got quite as bad as my nuclear winter nightmares, and I have learned that we are never fully prepared for the increasingly unexpected happenings of adult life.

I keep telling myself that reality is always somewhere inbetween my worse nightmares and my best wishes. I hope that holds true. Hope is a rare commodity now. Perhaps we have to make the world the way that is right by being active - being that lone voice crying out against the screaming hurricane and the enveloping tapestry of night; maybe waiting will only plunge us into darkness faster...what will happen as we stand by and do nothing?

The first rule of Animal Farm: Don't talk about Animal Farm....