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Shirky On P2P
There's an interview with Clay Shirky over at O'Reilly's OpenP2P network regarding P2P. Some of the piece is wordy ruminations over what peer to peer (and dear lord do I hate that term) is, and where it's going - but the most interesting part, IMHO, is the talking about web services and the changing definition of "client" and "server".
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...with five dollars? Imagine... five whole dollars in your pocket (if you're an open-source programmer, you know that five dollars is a veritable fortune). What do you do with it?
... you ... you don't know that to do with it.
Why, if you're a typical Linux zealot, you...
BUY A SHARE OF LNUX!!!!!
But what do you do with the rest of the money? Three bucks and a quarter is still a fortune (remember, you're an open-source programmer here). There's only one thing to do: you...
BUY ANOTHER SHARE OF LNUX!!!!!
But you still have a buck fifty! A vast amount (open-souce programmer, remember)! There's only one thing to do with it: you...
BUY AN HOUR OF WILD ANAL PASSION FROM SOME SLUTTY HO
But you still have a buck and a quarter! A huge amount (open-source, yadda yadda yadda)! What do you do but:
BUY ANOTHER HOUR OF CRAZED ANIMAL LUST FROM A TWO BLUE-COLLAR LOSERS
So now you have one dollar left. You now own two shares of LNUX that are worth a dollar each, you have herpes and genital warts from the ho, and a bleeding rectum from the losers. What do you do? You
Well, since you're an open-source programmer, you won't have to worry about what to do with all that money, since you'll never have five dollars to begin with.