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Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize
hal_mit writes: "Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and
Ken Sakamura have been jointly awarded the first annual
Takeda Foundation Prize, for "The origination and the advancement
of open development models for system software - open architecture,
free software and open source software". This is a major new recognition of the social value of free software and open source."
At the Takeda Award ceremony, they should hire some cheesy R&B/rap burnouts and get them to sing:
Take da award. (baaaaybeee)
Yeah, take da prize. (Oooh oooooh)
Do you now or have you ever engaged in or supported terroristical activities against the United States of America?
-- Jo Jo McCarthy, jr
Bill Gates should win an award for making a good number of PCs Windows based, as without Windows, us tech support guys would have to support 24125812 different operating systems and Mac's would reign supreme.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Richard M. Stallman recognized for creating what? Someone please show me this "GNU operating system," I'd really like to give it a try. Might even be as good as Linux.
China Sends Photos to Taiwan with Island Nation's Picture Cut Out
BEIJING, China -- A day after threatening to "shed blood" if Taiwan sought
independence, a hurt and angry China upped the stakes when it sent Taiwan
maps and photos of the two with Taiwan's picture cut out.
A note attached to the photos said that Taiwan could "forget ever being
popular" if they break away from China, because while China is a super
power, Taiwan has and always will be, a "little loser island," who as far as
China is concerned, is "now dead."
"Oh that's real mature," said Chen Shuibian, leader of Taiwan's
pro-independence movement. "We're just so tired of their whole thing - the
jealousy over our friendship with the U.S., the threats, the drunken late
night phone calls promising to be less of an overbearing communist super
power. I mean it's so over between us and them and has been for a long
time."
While Taiwan has operated as a separate country for over 50 years, China has
traditionally had a hard time accepting this fact, insisting the two
countries were meant to be together. But in a Beijing news conference today,
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji had this message for Taiwan, "No, we're through.
Who needs sluts like you anyway?" He then added, "And don't think you're
getting your 'Dark Side of the Moon' CD back either. Because that's China's
now."
You know, if you blow Taco real good, he'll let you replace that annoyingly self-serving sig of yours with a nice banner.
Does that mean that Torvalds, Sakamura and the Takeda Foundation in general keep with the tyranical and slavering draconian view of open source and its need to be rammed down peoples throats like Stallman does? Stallman is an elitist pig that I hope I meet someday so I can snap all of his long bones in two.
Where the hell are my mod points when I need 'em. That was damn funny.
Maybe they've been given to people who know when to use their +1 bonus and when not to.
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin