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FLOSS Developer Survey Results Published
grex writes "The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of Maastricht has published its final report. One of its five parts is the developer survey based basically on developers from the European Union. Results show that Debian is the preferred distribution, GNOME the desktop the majority choose and vi more popular than Emacs. But this survey also handles economic, law-related and motivation aspects among developers that make it very interesting to read."
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Winnipeg Manitoba SUCKS!!
You know, the Tested Open-ObjecT Hierarchical PAtented SoftTware Environment.
Jesus H. Christ, ED's.
How many "Comment Whoring" flame wars are you fuckers trying to start today?
An editor war isn't enough, so why don't you throw in a browser war..
Well fuck me, that's not doing it, so let's just throw in the hottly debated desktop issue and just start an all out flame war to end all flame wars.
Great fuckin job, fucktards.
Don't forget the venerable Death Star vs Enterprise debate
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Only Floss the ones you want to keep!
This is true man! I gots periodontial desease and it was bad YO.
Them teeth done be growin back yall.
Takes care of em or dey will leave.
Where do they each find their six girlfriends?
This is the survey question: What is your gender?
male 2198 98.79%
female 25 1.12%
other 2 0.09%
Obviously not in free/open software! Or do they share?
Mod this up someone. This is pathetic... :)
If you agree with this, you must copy this text, go to the top story on /. at the time you are reading, and paste this into a reply to the parent.
To The Washington Post
Dear America:
And so it has come to this. Your once great nation has
fallen into madness, an affliction of mass denial that brings shivers up
the spines of millions outside your borders. Yours is a sick nation. But
most of you carry on as though nothing at all is the matter.
Dark, evil operations run rampant in the secret corners
of your government institutions. An illegally constituted government pursues
war at will anywhere on earth, discussing nuclear options that become points
for cheerful chatter over lunch. Your military and intelligence agencies
employ terrorist tactics around the globe even as they insist that such
tactics are necessary in the fight against terrorism.
You have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites.
Murderers. Fools.
Your constitution is a shambles thanks to national security
measures resulting from what might well be U.S.-government-sponsored terrorist
attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., covert provocations designed
to justify a malevolent, poisonous, oil-based military economy.
Never mind that earth-friendly technology already exists
to once and for all end dependence on oil, coal and nuclear energy from
huge, out-of-control utilities and corporations. You would rather pay through
the nose for your insecure comforts, wouldn't you America ? and make others
pay with their blood.
At the same time, you stand by as the Israel?s secular
Zionists ? whom you support through the supply of arms and money -- slaughter
untold numbers of innocents in the West Bank, then blame the Palestinians
for bringing the terror upon them selves. True, there are terrible Arab
suicide bombers in Israel?s midst. But are they not driven to madness and
desperation by your infernal support of international terrorist politics?
As I write these words, you support a nation run by a
convicted murderer who with impunity is carrying out war crimes as cruel
and horrendous as those of other sadistic tyrants in history. And you say,
in your utter cynicism, when will these Palestinians bring this war to
an end?
You recklessly wage combat on other fronts, too. At home,
your War on Drugs is a disastrous 30-year folly -- a gigantic con game
designed to benefit lethal cartels, corrupt politicians and menacing intelligence
agencies across the planet.
Meanwhile, military tanker jets daily spray massive quantities
of unknown chemicals into the skies above your cities without your population?s
consent, and most of you do not even have the wherewithal to look up. Those
who do and who voice their outrage hear only a deafening silence from your
congress and your tax-supported health agencies. Some Americans have too
active imaginations, yes? Best treat them with mind-numbing prescription
drugs, and try to forget that the awful side effects number in the thousands.
Indeed, those who your government appoints to oversee
your safety and security laugh in your faces. With your government?s support,
crooked multinationals like Monsanto buy up the world?s water supplies,
and take possession of the world?s vegetation through Frankenstein technology
already known to cause illness.
Does the FDA care about any of this? Hell no. It?s long
been on the bandwagon to foist genetically altered food on the Guinea Pigs
of the country -- including every man, woman and child on America?s increasingly
toxic soil.
You are a nation of suckers, America, to be bled dry
of your hard-earned pay through outrageous bank schemes, Wall Street rip
offs and fake government budget grabs. Your Pentagon cannot account for
trillions in lost dollars. Does this bother you? Not in the least.
Your whole economy is controlled by what is for the most
part ravenous, international private banking interests in the form of The
Federal Reserve, which with your government?s consent leads you down the
garden path to irrecoverable debt and certain financial ruin.
Is this worth thinking about? When?s the football game
on?
These very same money men are the ones who, through unmonitored
and unrepresentative world committees, are driving countries like Argentina
into hopeless debt and social upheaval. These greedy overlords are creating
strife and suffering on a scale too tragic for words in nation after nation.
Just look at Africa.
They?ve got their sites on America, now, too; disrupting
economic stability through so-called free trade initiatives and provisions
for special favors and the endless flow of cash to corporate monstrosities
like Enron.
For the most part, your congressional representatives
are nothing but swine gathering at the corporate troughs. Your president
is a creep and a thug, a hypocrite who through his actions celebrates war,
repression and greed even as he gives lip service to peace, freedom and
justice.
George W. Bush hoodwinks you daily, the coward hiding
behind a phony patriotism. He is an Enron buddy boy, a spoiled child lying
in his teeth about his past and current dirty deeds. Does he care about
you America? Hardly. This is altogether obvious to those outside your borders
who are politically aware and awake to the world around them.
You were never concerned about the disgraceful practices
of George's ruthless father, either, a Bin-Laden cohort and friend to criminals
and killers in global drug, oil and terrorist enterprises. Iran. Vietnam.
El Salvador. Chile. Guatemala. Iraq. And on and on. The never-ending bully-boy
story of blood, guns, drugs and money.
Does any of this matter? Not really. Go get your ten-billionth
burger America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden
meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television
sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on Cops.
Few among you are the least bit concerned that no real
investigation of 911 has taken place, that no serious investigation of
the anthrax attacks is moving forward, that no authentic investigation
of Enron, or the murder of one of its top executives, is underway.
How many of you give the slightest damn about the totalitarian
measures your government is taking to keep its secret meetings, grubby
files and treasonous activities from your eyes? You look the other way
as your own honest citizens rise up against those within your nation who
gassed innocent children to death at Wako, hid evidence in the TWA 800
air disaster and rubbed elbows with foreign terrorists in Oklahoma City.
When did you stop caring America? Was it after your own
CIA and FBI plotted the murder of President John F. Kennedy? Or is this
just the raving lunacy of the conspiracy nut? What does your gut tell you
America? Is something a little amiss here?
Forget about it. Have some Pepto-Bismal.
Today, in futility, your own government goes to court
against itself for information you are entitled to by law. But this is
hardly deemed vital news in the community. It is a fleeting reference in
an electronic sea of meaningless banter. For proof, just look to all the
spineless whores who constitute your mainstream news media.
Today, you excoriate, ridicule and ostracize the brave
and true among you. Your best investigative journalists are fired from
their jobs and ignored. Congress?s few courageous souls are laughed at
and dismissed out of hand. The most honest and conscientious political
leader in the country, Ralph Nader, is a powerless, near invisible curiosity
easily side-lined by hired goons.
America, you are a goddamn shame.
What law matters now in your despicable state? What justice?
What truth? When will you wake up? If you had your druthers, you would
right now gather your courage, take to the streets and march on Washington
D.C in the millions. But I know you will do no such thing. The vast majority
of you are spiritually, emotionally and intellectually dead.
You consume. You eat. You shit. And that?s just about
it.
As I write these words in Spring of 2002, I can only
imagine what additional horrors your shadow government might be planning
in what will surely be an attempt to justify militarism and totalitarianism
on a universal scale. A nuclear explosion in one of your cities perhaps?
A massive bio-chemical attack?
Or perhaps it will be some Arab terrorist who does the
great and terrible deed, his last thought before death being the promises
you made to him before killing his family.
Sincerely,
Robert McDougall
A Canadian
Come on, admit it, USA is crazy! 37 murders every minute, 422 armed assaults every minute, 20484 rapes every minute.. CRIME IS A DISEASE, but you americans GOT THE CURE! Stallone COBRA! ;)