That was an amuzing response to the article. Getting a little bored with
the open source pontification?
- Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hammerquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:46 PM
Subject: [RLUG] esr: The Sun is setting
The Linux communities second-most zealous catastrophist has
spoken again:
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/02/1240243
The article features esr foretelling the iminent death of Sun
Microsystems. Having somewhat of a morbid curiosity in this
vein, I bit. I read. I looked for evidence. And lo and behold,
80% down the page, there it was: Sun had an (admittedly) bad day
at the stock exchange. There you have it. Sun's stock went down
(as if it never had before), so esr's done the honors of writing
their eulogy.
Except he didn't. Mr. Raymond, as he frequently does, used yet
another opportunity to write a 99.44% content-free opinion piece
in which he romanticizes hacker culture and paints the picture
(just short of saying it outright) that another entity was
condemned to that big bit-bucket in the sky because it didn't
embrace Linux enthusiastically enough.
I'm not one to draw drastic analogies (and those who know me,
please stop snickering), but doesn't this sound a bit like
medieval religion?
"So you see, Brothers and Sisters, it was Lord McNealy's lack
of Faith in the Divine GPL that caused his estate to rot, his
whiskey reserves to smell of cheese, and the plague to leave
a permanent and fatal scar on his temporal lobe in the shap
of a Gentoo penguin. Let's all toss Lord McNealy's body into
the Open Source Volcano in the name of Our Lord Stallman,
then take some fresh herring to our web-footed Priests, lest
the same punishment afflict us as well."
And with that exaggerated farce, I leave you. :)
Cheers,
Tim Hammerquist
--
Come, I shall show you the power of a well-read dog!
-- The Professor, "Excel Saga"
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