Linux-Advocacy Digest #238, Volume #32 Fri, 16 Feb 01 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Interesting article (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: The Windows guy. (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: The Windows guy. (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Microsoft seeks government help to stop Linux (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Linux Threat: non-existant (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: The Windows guy. (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Microsoft says Linux threatens innovation (Peter Hayes)
Re: Windows XP! Will it really be reliable? (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Interesting article (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Whistler/.NET will Help Linux (Mike Martinet)
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Interesting article
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:39:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> T. Max Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Said [EMAIL PROTECTED] in alt.destroy.microsoft on Thu, 15 Feb
> >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >>Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >>>> T. Max Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> >Said Mike Byrns in alt.destroy.microsoft on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:08:10
> >>>> > [...]
> >>>> >>Perhaps they, not you, define legality? I don't think that the USGov is
> >>>> >>"scared" in any way. Triffled yes.
> >>>> >
> >>>> >Parsing error:Microsoft is the scared one.
> >>>> >
> >>>> Excuse my butting in here but what is "Triffled" ?
> >>>
> >>>very very mildly effected.
> >>>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >Trifled?
> >
> That is what I thought of too but I asked because I thought perhaps
> it was slang which I had never heard before.
>
> When Aaron came back with what I thought of first I realized that
> mike.burns is a member of the generation which acts as though how a
> word is spelled is not as important at it "lookin write". ;)
The Jenuhrashun-eks...
failed by the teachers union.
>
> --
> How much do we need to pay you to�'&ew Netscape?
> - BILL GATES, to AOL in a 1996 meeting
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Windows guy.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:41:06 -0500
Mike wrote:
>
> "Edward Rosten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:96dg8p$9hj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > He is working on a Linux web server. He wants to do a global replace in
> > > VI. I tell him to use sed. He whines a bit, then tries it. I hear from
> >
> > The syntax is the same in vi and sed. IN vi, alll you need to do is
> > prepend a % or a 1,$ to the command.
>
> As long as something only occurs a maximum of once on each line, eh?
>
1,$s/bad/good/g
g means GLOBALLY...for EVERY occurance on the line.
> I think you have a point, though, unless Mark's friend is taking advantage
> of more than just a global search and replace capability. The thing is, I
> know Mark knows how to do a global replace in vi, so I'm reasonably sure
> that he's doing something with sed that would be relatively painful in vi.
> Relative is a strange term here, though, since I have always found sed to be
> more painful than almost anything. Except maybe vi.
>
> -- Mike --
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Windows guy.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:41:59 -0500
Donn Miller wrote:
>
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>
> > Check your fans, especially your CPU fan.
> >
> > Replace as needed and/or install additional fans.
>
> Someone was telling me about how CPU fans are supposed to last for years
> and years and years. I had to laugh at that. Mine got all junked up
> with dust after a while. Even after I cleaned it, it was still making
> some aweful howling/whining noises, like it was struggling to blow air.
> I took the thing off, and lubed it with some WD40, and it seems to be
> fine now.
>
> That's ridiculous, about how CPU fans, like those Elan fans that came
> with Socket 7 Pentium, are supposed to last for at least a decade.
> Those things are just cheap plastic. A lot of those things probably go
depends on the bearings. Get a ball-bearing fan, and it will, indeed,
last for years.
> bad after about a year or so.
>
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--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft seeks government help to stop Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:43:03 -0500
Boris Dynin wrote:
>
> Why don't you fuck off NT newsgroup, you idiot. Don't crosspost your crap,
> retard.
What's wrong, Boris...
Is your blind devotion to Billy and his fellow extortionists
embarrassing you again...
>
> Boris
> "petilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > After killing innovation in the web browser market by distributing
> > IE for free, Microsoft is now calling Linux a "threat to innovation"
> > because it is being distributed for free.
> >
> > "There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get
> > something for free." says Jim Allchin of Microsoft.
> >
> > Read the outrageous story at:
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4833927.html?tag=owv
> >
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Threat: non-existant
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:44:00 -0500
Boris Dynin wrote:
>
> Wow, asshole from F*cking fathreland. Fuck off you retard.
>
YOu write like a loser.
A manipulated loser.
You should, like, do something about that.
[Tossing M$ out the window would be a good start]
> Boris
> "Peter K�hlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Chad Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > What Linux support?
> > >
> > > > With a microsoft support package, call in a problem and wait, for
> three
> > > > days to > infinity.
> > >
> > > Blatant lie.
> > >
> > > -Chad
> > >
> > > <SNIP rest, based on false premise and idiotic logic>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Chad, and again without his medicine.
> > Chad, jsut for the record, have youi ever heard how SuSE is making
> > it`s money?
> > They don`t get most of it from the sale of SuSE-Linux, although I`m sure
> > that helps a lot.
> > Nope, by far most of their revenue is from support-contracts.
> >
> > And I did already experience the famous MS support. Those guys not
> > only could`nt help, they had the gall to charge money for this "support".
> >
> > Now go back playing with your wintendo-thingy, and don`t forget your
> > pills now, chaddy-boy. You know, how badly you behave without...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Are you sure you REALLY want to read this with Netscape?
> > [ ] YES Go to the Microsoft site and download Internet Explorer
> > [ ] NO Go to the Microsoft site and download Internet Explorer
> > [ ] LOCK UP Crash Windows and soft reboot
> > [ ] BSOD Crash Windows and hard reboot
> >
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Windows guy.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:44:55 -0500
Charlie Ebert wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >
> >
> >Tim Hanson wrote:
> >>
> >> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Edward Rosten wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > He's talking non-interactive. With an interactive editor like Notepad
> >> > > > or vi, one must manually open the file into the text buffer and do
> >> > >
> >> > > Vi can do noninteractive stuff. Wirte a script for the ex abck end and
> >> > > execute that, just like ed scripts, but better.
> >> > >
> >> > > -Ed
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > "Ed is the one true editor...."
> >> >
> >>
> >> Ed??!? You use ed? What a wimp! Anything above DEBUG is a waste of
> >> resources. It's a little hard to duplicate graphics in hex, though...
> >> :-)
> >
> >Who said I use an editor?
> >
> >cat | cc
> >
> >is usually sufficient.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts
> >> avoiding you.
> >> -- The Old Farmer's Almanac
> >
> >--
> >Aaron R. Kulkis
> >Unix Systems Engineer
> >DNRC Minister of all I survey
> >ICQ # 3056642
> >
>
> DO NOT expect me to give a discussion of how to WIRE a 60's era CPU
> for batch processing.
Is that with or 1-conductor patch cords?
>
> --
> Charlie
>
> **DEBIAN** **GNU**
> / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __
> / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ /
> /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\
> http://www.debian.org
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Peter Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft says Linux threatens innovation
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:41:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Feb 2001 12:07:47 -0800, Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Microsoft is asking the government to protect competition by outlawing
> open source. Kind of ironic.
The school playground bully runs to papa as soon as someone threatens his
position, why should Microsoft be any different?
Peter
--
In the 19th century surveyors measured the height of Everest
from 500 miles away in India.
This cannot be done today. Everest is no longer visible from
the survey location due to increased atmospheric pollution.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows XP! Will it really be reliable?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:45:58 -0500
Charlie Ebert wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >
> >
> >Charlie Ebert wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Marten Kemp wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Charlie Ebert wrote:
> >> >> <<snip>>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When you compare the development cycle between Intel and AMD,
> >> >> > AMD is not hindered by secret contracts with Microsoft.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If anything, you will hear a slosh in the boots of Intel as they
> >> >> > walk away from the next encounter from AMD.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If I was the president of Intel, I would tell MS to just fuck off.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > Charlie
> >> >> What secret contracts? Special opcodes they only tell Microsoft about?
> >> >
> >> >MS tells them what opcodes they want Intel to implement....or something.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Oh please gentlemen!
> >
> >it's a joke, Charlie....
> >laugh a little.
> >
> >>
> >> Are you telling me that nobody is aware of the 64 bit Intel processor
> >> used in the HP-9000 series? It's been on the road for along time now.
> >>
> >> It's the same damn chip. But it's available ONLY for mainframe use.
> >
> >I'm well aware of this.
> >
> >>
> >> You mean to tell me you guys didn't know that?
> >>
> >> They are under contract to sit on this chip until Microsoft get's finished
> >> working the bugs out of their 64 bit code.
> >
> >That's the secret contract referred to above...
> >
> >>
> >> Go call an HP rep and ask him what kind of CPU is used in an HP-9000
> >> mainframe computer.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> -- Marten Kemp
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Aaron R. Kulkis
> >> >Unix Systems Engineer
> >> >DNRC Minister of all I survey
> >> >ICQ # 3056642
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Charlie
> >>
> >> **DEBIAN** **GNU**
> >> / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __
> >> / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ /
> >> /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\
> >> http://www.debian.org
> >
> >--
> >Aaron R. Kulkis
> >Unix Systems Engineer
> >DNRC Minister of all I survey
> >ICQ # 3056642
> >
> >
>
> I knew *YOU* knew about this AK.
>
> But what of the rest of them.
>
> Do *THEY* know that all HP customers are
> signing non-disclosure agreements to cover
> this fact up????
>
> Do I give a shit! NO.
>
> But this is absolutely true. Intel has
> a pac with Microsoft so Microsoft has time
> to finish up it's 64 bit OS before Intel's
> chip hit's market.
>
> A chip which was largely designed by HP.
>
> And BTW, HP contributed greately to the Linux
> 64 bit kernel which was actually READY BEFORE
> the HP-9000's ever started using this processor.
>
> And one more FYI. There *IS* a very good possibilty
> that HP-UX will be penguified in a couple of years.
Why not. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than maintaining HP-UX.
>
> --
> Charlie
>
> **DEBIAN** **GNU**
> / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __
> / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ /
> /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\
> http://www.debian.org
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Interesting article
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:49:53 -0500
Tom Wilson wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Giuliano Colla"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >>
> >> Giuliano Colla wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > [...]
> >> > >
> >> > > "Asshole" is reserved for people like Goodwin and Myers who
> >> > > constantly
> >> > > post all kinds of lies.
> >> > >
> >> > > The remaining Windows admins are merely idiots.
> >> > >
> >> > > [Idiots because only an idiot would work for 1/5 the pay of a Unix
> >> > > admin while doing 10x as much labor to accomplish 1/10 as much]
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, but I disagree. If they can only point and click,
> >>
> >> that's why I call them idiots.
> >>
> >> > what should
> >> > they do? Apply for a Unix admin position?
> >>
> >> Take the first step and learn how to use Unix at the user level.
> >>
> >> > They're just taking advantage of a situation where being competent or
> >> > not doesn't make any real difference. Or they've just been unlucky.
> >> > In that case they use Linux at home.
> >>
> >> The marketplace is STARVING for Unix admins...
> >>
> >
> > Honestly, I didn't know.
>
> I see the very same thing where I'm at. (Chattanooga, TN.) The word
> merely getting out that you have UNIX/Linux experience garners offers.
>
I'll have to drop by the next time I go down south.
Chattanooga is a nice, picturesque town...especially when viewed
from Lookout Mountain.
> --
> Tom Wilson
> Sunbelt Software Solutions
> Presently lurking in his Linux Partition
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Mike Martinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Whistler/.NET will Help Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:54:18 -0700
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>
> Flacco wrote:
> >
> > > The market will speak on this. MS can't force people.
> >
> > ...unless they manage to outlaw open source software.
>
> That's impossible in the US.
>
> First Amendment.
>
I hope you're right. I can imagine a dual-pronged assault on Open
Source.
1) From copyright owners after MS fully integrates all the 'safeguards'
they'd like to see and people start turning to Open Source in order to
do things like digitally record television programs without commercials,
etc.
2) From the government after MS fully integrates all the 'safeguards' it
would like to see in it's developing interest in preventing computers
and the internet from being used in crime and terrorism.
"When Open Source is outlawed..." (soon-to-be-famous quote waiting to
be completed)
MjM
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