On Tue, 03 May 2005 15:22:05 -0400 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following:
> > http://www.petitiononline.com/YALB1975/petition.html > > Just to let you all know if you have not seen this. It may or may not > > help. > > Until I read the first line of the petition I was looking forward > to subscribing to the petition. The first sentence of the petition > is an insult. To whom? The hardware manufacturers? Oh, boo hoo. Sometimes what people need to wake up is a big splash of cold water in the face. > The over all mood of this particular petition is,I believe, arrogant, > belligerant, combative, threatening - and not persuasive at all. The Open Source community has been asking *nicely* for, what, almost a decade now? As far as I can see, this petition is more of an ultimatum, ie. 'adapt or die'. > I've always heard you get more with sugar than you do with bile. Well, this ain't no tea party. Are we going to stop software patents by being polite and obsequious? No. Are we going to stop DRM by sending flowery greeting cards? No. Suits (politicians *and* grifters) react to only one thing: their necks on the chopping block. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:55:59 up 71 days, 21:05, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.05 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..." -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News
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