Comment I'm wearing a suit.. (Score 1) 292
And I feel really dumb, just as I should, like many of you say. I have a few ignorant questions. Perhaps those of you who are wiser will enlighten me:
1. Wasn't the cpu (386) that Mr. Torvalds originally wrote Linux on developed by 'suits'? And wasn't it running in a machine developed by 'suits'? I suppose Mssrs. Grove and Akers qualify as 'suits'.
2. Wasn't UNIX originally developed in a lab (at AT&T?) that was dreamt up, created by and funded by 'suits'?
3. Aren't places such as MIT and Berkeley (among many others) supported in large part by endowments that were paid for by rich 'suits'? I.e.: don't all the CS labs (and the students in them, many of whom post here) benefit from the efforts of 'suits', perhaps w/o realising it?
4. Would we all have the leisure to argue about such things, and call each other stupid names, if it weren't for capitalist-pigs-wearing-suits who created the wealth that allows many of us reprieve from getting our food and shelter directly? Wouldn't we all be subsistence farmers (with no computers to play with) without them?
Please forgive my ignorance. It must be the necktie I'm wearing right now.
regards,
Bradley
1. Wasn't the cpu (386) that Mr. Torvalds originally wrote Linux on developed by 'suits'? And wasn't it running in a machine developed by 'suits'? I suppose Mssrs. Grove and Akers qualify as 'suits'.
2. Wasn't UNIX originally developed in a lab (at AT&T?) that was dreamt up, created by and funded by 'suits'?
3. Aren't places such as MIT and Berkeley (among many others) supported in large part by endowments that were paid for by rich 'suits'? I.e.: don't all the CS labs (and the students in them, many of whom post here) benefit from the efforts of 'suits', perhaps w/o realising it?
4. Would we all have the leisure to argue about such things, and call each other stupid names, if it weren't for capitalist-pigs-wearing-suits who created the wealth that allows many of us reprieve from getting our food and shelter directly? Wouldn't we all be subsistence farmers (with no computers to play with) without them?
Please forgive my ignorance. It must be the necktie I'm wearing right now.
regards,
Bradley
