salute! Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/";
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:48 AM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends and enemies, both foreign and domestic. > I have not written my weekly rants here for some time, so do not read on if > you do not want a doseful of the unending version of some Freudian > self-serving ego. Particularly those who gets a monthly paycheck to say "I > love what my boss ask me to love". :) > > To me Open Source has always been about me, and me, and me. (You can read > the same line to youself so do not let the authorship here fools you. It is > called connotative literature dummy). It is because it is what > self-reflection scribbling ability that the Creator has given on this > Saturday dark morning in a bland countryside farm. I did not ask to be born > a slave but am here to make sense of a seemingly cruel capitalistic patented > world but heh, there is a choice. There is a God. I, like everyone of you, > prefer not to work like a rat where in the end, i ended up old, awaiting > pensionless death and leaving no legacy but some mugs that says, "I love my > cubicle", "My cubicle seems larger" when you can right now, right here take > this path and ride out into the Saharan Desert or the jungles of Cambodia > and give your Karma given life a real taste of Darwinian truth. > > Yes, Open Source should have been called Freedom Software but heh, it is > also free lunch and the trolls downloaded my works without paying. But heh, > Karma is kind, and i do get free trips after wild fame trips in return. > Somehow the damsels from other lands are blonder and bluer in their eyes and > they seem to look at me the prefered other way (of been exotic and asian). > > The Web has exacerberated your life in all proportions and sticking to a > proprietary mouthful won't last your lunch break. Give youself a real break. > Take the plunge. Quit your pathetic day job too. Learn up some real-men-only > Java like Azrul and me do. Come to some fest around the corner. You open up > your Linux. I open up my Mac. You show me your magic. I show you my magic. > Do not show others' magic. Do not be a consumer like some MacDonalds soft > drink refiller. > > This path often opens up doors and often empty rooms. Yep, i have to live > on a farm. Yep, i lost my fishing pond to some greedy landfill. Only lalang > and fresh air. I ended up poorer only in my pockets but not in my hearts of > hearts. Yep, i have a wife and four kids to feed. But we are happy. Gone > through life at every bend offered, and every cliff taken. I made my own > follies. I paid my own price. I have reached the furthest corners of men's > eyes. I have learnt lessons no degrees can bind. I have seen many sides no > coin can decide. I have felt ecstasy and made history. I am alive. > > I will continue this life and at the end of it I can truly say what not > many men can say: "I did it. My way". And that way means having something > you truly own. No matter if its a wiki page or an inner class. > > Peace! > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
