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In unrelated news [slashdot.org], I have noticed an overweight, pot-smoking, foul-smelling person in the parking lot shouting "Free software!" and poorly singing a song which sounds like "Sadi Moma." Security has been notified.
Keep the faith, spread the love, take the red pill, smell the coffee, fight the power, do the hustle, mow the lawn, eat the rich, Mott the Hoople, kick the can, bag the toads and If They Move, Kill 'Em. - Joss Whedon
Fortune
With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.
MS Antitrust memo
I saw this on Digg, I thought I would keep a copy handy.
"From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
Jeff Westorinon; Ben Fathi
TO: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvofd; Eric Rudder
Cc:
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows
specific. If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without
having to do the work. Maybe there is no way Io avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
"
This is quite possibly the most damning email of them all, and if there's _ever_ a question as to if Microsoft's being anticompetitive, this answers it. Not only speaking of making it hard for others to use, but including the possibility of patenting the technology to keep it out of the hands of others, "even if they are open". It's way past time for the Open Computer, no more of this ACPI bullshit, no more of Microsoft's designs influencing the way Linux users have to use their machines. This is quite possibly the scummiest thing I've read to date about Microsoft.
Ayn Rand
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand
Stephen Colbert
About God
Dewey - Like Pastor Roy said, how God is so much bigger and wiser than us, and trying to see what He's thinking would be like an ant trying to see what I'm thinking.
Teacher - Yes, exactly. But we can trust in His wisdom, and have faith that He is watching over us.
Dewey - Like me with the anthill in my backyard. I spent days watching the ants, trying to figure out which ones were good, and which ones were bad, but they all just looked like ants, so I started smiting all of them.
Teacher - Well that's not --
Dewey - I was smiting them with the garden hose, and with lighter fluid, and with the lawnmower, and to be perfectly honest, I think I went a little crazy with the shovel. Those ants could have been praying to me all day, I wouldn't have heard them. *ponders* There was nothing they could do about it
Teacher - But, I don't think --
Dewey - Really, it's the same with us. There's nothing we can do about anything either, so why worry about it? Hey, this is making me feel better.
Teacher - Well, that's good, but --
Dewey - I guess all we can do is live our lives with as much kindness and decency as possible, and try not to dwell on God standing over us with a giant shovel. Bye!
- Malcolm in the Middle
