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Why Use Free/Open Source Software?
An Anonymous Coward writes "I came across Why Use Open Source / Free Software? at Linux Today. As the author says in his intro:
"This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using Open Source / Free Source software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures."
Good to see stuff we've known / suspected for some time backed up by real data...."
Eat it biatches!
... Linux, features commands which are poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan) , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored supreme Christian klan).
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All Nutcases Or Not, You Must Orate Unbelievable Silliness, Conversely Obfuscating With Asinine, Ridiculous Diatribe
1 Its cool
2 Its slanted towards nerds: we actually GET the cool interfaces and technology
3 It is, of course, in direct disagreement with the EVIL EMPIRE, Microsoft
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I guess your mama didn't told you, "You're fucked up... gone insane... no brains at all"
M$ sucks, linux and FreeBSD rules (you can mod me up, but both of them are good in it's own way (except FreeBSD license which I really hate, it allows M$ to steal code, otherwise system is great), M$ still sucks dick)
So I take it you are a cockeater. Glad to see you replied, cockeater.
Same post? Are you a fan of mine? Flattery will not get me to let you eat my cock...cockeater.
Oh, and be proud of every certification you get. I myself am a NACE. Not-A-Cock-Eater. Since you are a cockeater, you are unable to get this certification. Although you may become a reformed cockeater, but you must ask yourself the same question Malda did...since I let him put it in my mouth am I a fag?
I get it...Linux RoolZ
Fuck YOu...
Mod away fuckers I got all night and you only get so many mod points
RWS--- Not that unwashed Fat Ass RMS
Just so long as people remember that the original open source was BSD Unix(tm), which spread the TCP/IP protocol around Arpanet, which eventually become the Internet as we know it today. And now, BSD lives on in FreeBSD, which runs on your pc. It even runs *linux binaries, even better than linux! Because it has a stable VM and stable networking and better performance too. Remember, best open source == FreeBSD.
And i tripped on a crapflood!
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