Indie Game Jam Results Posted

baruz writes "You may remember a previous story on Slashdot about the Indie Game Jam organized by Chris Hecker and company. The game sources have been posted." Anyone feel like porting these to Linux?

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OSS and the Collapse of Enron

[Anonymous Coward]

Recently, in one of the worst financial disasters in history, the energy giant Enron went bankrupt. In the aftermath, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and retirement savings, while millions more lost all faith in the economic system of this fine country. Why did this happen? The Liberal Media was quick to jump all over the executives of Enron, making outrageous claims they had stolen millions of dollars, and the employees of Anderson Accounting, another innocent firm caught in the economic turmoil and mud-slinging. I hope to dispel these libelous myths and reveal what really happened...

It all starts back in 1991, when I, fresh out of college, got a job in the IT department at Enron. I was basically an intern, fetching coffee for the sysadmins who took care of all the machines. Eventually though, I proved my worth to management, and quickly started moving up the ladder. By 1997, I was the Head System Administrator for Enron Corporation.

Everything was going fine until 1999, when a new Operating System started making waves in the industry. Now, being a seasoned veteran, I usually know how to spot buzzwords and fads, but this time I let myself be deceived. I started frequenting web-sites like SlashDot, and soon I was espousing the "virtues" of Open-Source to anyone who would listen to me. I was a total GNU-head, even being stupid enough to buy software that was available for free!

It wasn't long before I was submitting the necessary paperwork to management to switch all Enron's computer systems to Open-Source Software. I had visions in my head of being a hero, of saving my company millions of dollars on software licenses alone. Little did I know what havoc I had just wreaked on a company and a country that had been so kind to me.

By mid 2001, the planning was complete, and we started the switch-over to Open-Source. We had planned to move all the company's servers, Suns and IBMs, along with a test-bed of 25% of the desktops, to Linux. The problems started immediately. From botched installs that required reinstall after reinstall to undocumented half-assed clones of popular commercial software, we experienced all kinds of disasters. The unlucky employees who had gotten their desktops switched to Linux couldn't do simple things like open Microsoft Word documents or read floppy disks. Due to some bug in MySQL, the financial database servers which had previously run the unbreakable Oracle managed to lose millions of dollars in a matter of minutes. It was a complete meltdown.

When the dust had settled, there was no need for my bosses to fire me. There was no Enron left to work for. Linux and Open-Source Software had completely destroyed one of the strongest corporations on Earth in a short time. Luckily there have been no charges pressed against me yet. I can only hope that those reading this can learn from my mistake; I know I have. The moral of the story: Open-Source Software is an economic disaster waiting to happen. Don't use it!

first post!!

[Anonymous Coward]

first post. yay!

Re:first post!!

[Anonymous Coward]

try harder dipshit

Games for Linux would help

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't it?

Jon Katz, Junis, and my cawk

[Anonymous Coward]

Hamas should quit sending suicide bombers to israel they should send Jon Katz to molest the children instead, he can bring Junis with him!

don't do that

[Anonymous Coward]

We love you.

Re:fp

[Anonymous Coward]

no no no

If only I coulde get these games to run .2 FPS

[jonr]

Subject says it all..