----- Original Message ----- > Post Script : May the Almighty with the source be with you... That's oxymoron! According to theologists across ages and religions, the Phenomenon of "God" is most certainly proprietory... anyway lets looks the other way for a change..... Assumption 1: God is The Supreme Being, Creator of all the Universe, Lord & Master of all Creation. Assumption 2: First He created the Creation, and then He created the idea of OpenSource. If God was OpenSourced.... 1> Microsoft would have taken "God" and added proprietory extensions to "Him"... and turn out a M$ implementation of God, much like the way it did with the Kerberos Open standard in Win2K. Only Microserfs would be licensed to pray to MS God, M$ would make sure that no-one could legally reverse-engineer their God! 2> MS would then come out with a proprietory Unix Services API to access MS God, but interoperability would still be an issue and you would ofcourse have to pay through your nose even to use the API. 3> With God handling the GPL dept... Richard Stallman and GNU would concentration on other things, namely Hurd! 4> Linus Torvalds would have been counted as a twice-born since he originally didn't release the Linux kernel under GPL. 5> Our suspicions that MS was re-incarnation of Devil would have been long established beyond dispute. 6> The *BSD folks would build the a better version of God and Replicate His Creation. Their version of creation would be more stable than many of its brethren, but few would pray to Him than say the Linux version. 7> Again, since *BSD folks would strictly control the development so they would be more orthodox than others. 8> The Mac users would have the friendliest and the kindest God. There would ofcourse be a dispute that Parc Xerox had him before they did. 9> The Devil-worshipper Microserfs would proclaim that their "God" was better and stronger that others, specially the Linux God. However this claim would easily be defeated by the fact that more people prayed to the Linux God and chanted the mantra of "May the Source be with you!" 10> Intel, AMD and Transmeta would collaborate rather than compete. Thanks to that Moore's Law would have been counted as ancient pre-history. Cheers, --Indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
