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  1. Re:Being attacked by a think tank! by Adhemar · · Score: 1 · on When Think Tanks Attack

    Talking about robot-like behaviour... How about this spin?

    Is Open Source Software Equivalent to the Borg?
    by Raymond Keating, Small Business Survival Committee

    In the software universe, something similar to the Borg from "Star Trek" seems to be at work. It's called open source software distributed under an agreement known as General Public License (GPL).

    If you recall, the Borg are "Star Trek" bad guys. They're basically evil bureaucrats with skin problems, who assimilate every species they come in contact with throughout the universe. Societies are wiped out. Individual thought and creativity are extinguished as individuals are absorbed into a collective.

    Something similar could be said of GPL-based open source software.

    Since Slashdot depicts Microsoft's Bill Gates as Borg (see the topic icons of this story above), I think this particular piece of FUD is rather interesting.

  2. Re:Being attacked by a think tank! by Adhemar · · Score: 1 · on When Think Tanks Attack

    Talking about robot-like behaviour... How about this spin?

    Is Open Source Software Equivalent to the Borg?
    by Raymond Keating, Small Business Survival Committee

    In the software universe, something similar to the Borg from "Star Trek" seems to be at work. It's called open source software distributed under an agreement known as General Public License (GPL).

    If you recall, the Borg are "Star Trek" bad guys. They're basically evil bureaucrats with skin problems, who assimilate every species they come in contact with throughout the universe. Societies are wiped out. Individual thought and creativity are extinguished as individuals are absorbed into a collective.

    Something similar could be said of GPL-based open source software.

    Since Slashdot depicts Microsoft's Bill Gates as Borg (see the topic icons of this story above), I think this particular piece of FUD is rather interesting.

  3. Disinformation by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Insightful · on When Think Tanks Attack

    In the name of Eris, some of those "think tanks" really are full of shit. For example, here's a nice article from the "Small Business Survival Committee" against the recent anti-SUV feelings among several key US people. Their motivation is to be doubted in the first place; why would a think tank that aligns itself with SMALL businesses care about SUV? Non "mom-n-pop" shop/small business will ever produce a SUV. Besides, look at some of their reasoning:

    Data from the institute is quite revealing. In 2002, driver deaths, per one million passenger vehicles one to three years old, registered 162 in mini cars, versus 64 in four-wheel-drive SUVs weighing between 3,500 and 6,000 pounds.

    Brilliant. Fucking brilliant. That's an ammount of misinformation that would make many a discordianist proud. I love that logic, how many people died in M1A2 Abrams tanks lately? Probably less then that. So clearly, everyone in the US should drive a M1A2 Abrams MBT. Also, more people die each year by drowning in water then by drowning in hydrochloric acid. Therefore, hydrochloric acid is safer to swim in then water. I'm not even going tom start on their anti-"EC penalty vs MS" article. Since when does MS count as a small business, anyways, to attract their concern?

  4. Disinformation by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Insightful · on When Think Tanks Attack

    In the name of Eris, some of those "think tanks" really are full of shit. For example, here's a nice article from the "Small Business Survival Committee" against the recent anti-SUV feelings among several key US people. Their motivation is to be doubted in the first place; why would a think tank that aligns itself with SMALL businesses care about SUV? Non "mom-n-pop" shop/small business will ever produce a SUV. Besides, look at some of their reasoning:

    Data from the institute is quite revealing. In 2002, driver deaths, per one million passenger vehicles one to three years old, registered 162 in mini cars, versus 64 in four-wheel-drive SUVs weighing between 3,500 and 6,000 pounds.

    Brilliant. Fucking brilliant. That's an ammount of misinformation that would make many a discordianist proud. I love that logic, how many people died in M1A2 Abrams tanks lately? Probably less then that. So clearly, everyone in the US should drive a M1A2 Abrams MBT. Also, more people die each year by drowning in water then by drowning in hydrochloric acid. Therefore, hydrochloric acid is safer to swim in then water. I'm not even going tom start on their anti-"EC penalty vs MS" article. Since when does MS count as a small business, anyways, to attract their concern?

  5. Re:Wal-Mart? by ratamacue · · Score: 2, Funny · on Digital Music Stores Reviewed
    And then check out the following articles, which explain why your article is full of hot air.

    Link 1
    Link 2
    Link 3

    (Quoted from your article:)
    By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand.

    So, Wal-Mart demonstrates that Vlasic pickles aren't worth quite as much as Vlasic claims, and we're supposed to pity Vlasic and their investment in marketing, and scold Wal-Mart for acting in self-interest? Now that's laughable.

  6. Small Business Survival Index by mlinksva · · Score: 1 · on Which US States are e-Commerce Friendly?

    Small Business Survival Committee's seventh annual Small Business Survival Index 2002: Ranking the Policy Environment for Entrepreneurship Across the Nation.