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Wal-Mart, Moore's Law and Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the deep-thoughts dept.

J.E. Kazor writes: "In MIT's 'Technology Review' magazine, Michael Schrage writes about Wal-Mart, Moore's Law, and Open Source. Perhaps instead of spending all of our energy bashing bashing the 800-pound gorilla, Microsoft, we should align the support of a 900-pound gorilla, such as Wal-Mart. Such a symbol of cost conscious efficiency should embrace the benefits of Open Source."

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  1. frost pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It hurts and stuff.

  2. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I send you this link in order to have your advice.

  3. Unfortunately.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You appear to have missed out the gravely dampening feature that the particular gorilla in question is the kind of 900 pound gorilla that mostly aligns its primate interest in the realm of retail shopping and the distribution of onions to greater species, thus enlisting the help of gorilla produce to aid us lesser code-fearing homo-sapiens in a brute force battle of onion selling against a software empire is probably more relevent only to those who array themselves with larger gorillas to discuss the merits of eating bananas using a selection of short syllables with an attribute of conservative use of consonants.

  4. Someone are need an editor! by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "energy bashing bashing the 800 pound gorilla,..."

    "allign the support of"

    "efficiency should embeace the benefits of Open Source."

    How about, instead of cramming all these lameness hacks into slashdot, demonstrate the usefulness of Open Source by tying a spell/grammar checker into the perl slashcode, at least for submissions.

    Then again, the submitter may be an alias for CmdrTaco...

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  5. Re:I'm amazed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I might get Troll, but Wal-Mart suck, as does slashdot when polluting it's (otherwise fine) frontpage with such Troll posts...