FT on Europe's Open Source Option

Anonymous Coward writes "The Financial Times offers a very interesting read about Linux, its possibilities for business, and its threat to Microsoft. Also a second article about "Europe's open-source option"."

Comments

FT?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's no FT, but it's close enough.

FP!!!

BOOM

[theWrkncacnter]

First post, maybe, mod down

It's pretty funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Because almost all the girls in Europe are as "open source" as can be.

Trust me.

Re:It's pretty funny

[Anonymous Coward]

And exactly where can one find these girls?

I'm European and I've got to really work to get laid on a Saturday evening. On the other hand, I've seen our girls just swoon around American and especially the Australian guys.

!@#!(*)a

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks for posting my email address bastard!

i said anonymous!

*g*

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.orange-today.co.uk/news/story/sm_738078 .html

for americans

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.unixadmin.co.uk/stuff/homo-101.gif

Re:The United States

[Anonymous Coward]

MAG: 25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS, SAYS SAN FRAN HEALTH OFFICIAL

New ROLLING STONE Managing Editor Ed Needham is set to hit complete controversy with a 4-page report: "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+."

Filed by Greg Freeman, the shock story claims some men with HIV are deliberately having unprotected sex with those who want to be infected!

"The men who want the virus are called 'bug chasers,' and the men who freely give them the virus are called 'gift givers.' While the rest of the world fights the AIDS epidemic and most people fear HIV infection, this subculture celebrates the virus and eroticizes it," reports Freeman in the February 6, 2003 edition of ROLLING STONE.

At least twenty-five percent of all newly infected gay men fall into [bug-chasing] category, according to one claim in the "special report".

"In this world, the men with HIV are the most desired, and the bug chasers will do anything to get the virus."

Gay groups "aggressively encouraged" Freeman to drop the article. One sad passage captures a young man in New York City who wants to be infected:

"His eyes light up as he says that the actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV, will be 'the most erotic thing I can imagine.'"

An infector is quoted as saying: "I'm murdering him in a sense, killing him slowly, and that's sort of, as sick as it sounds, exciting to me."

Most AIDS activists prefer to deny the problem exists to any significant extent, says Dr. Bob Cabaj, director of behavioral-health services for San Francisco County and past president of Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. "They don't want to address that this is really going on."

In a gonzo-journalism ROLLING STONE moment, Cabaj claims at least 25% of all newly infected gay men fall into [bug-chasing] category.

END

Filed By Matt Drudge

Linux DESTROYED

[skelley]

There was a big (7.6) quake in Western Mexico a few hours ago. No major damage in Mexico City, but several people killed in Colima state, etc. Check on friends and realtives if you can.

I post this here with Linux in the title so maybe someone will see it if they check this news first thing in the morning. Apparently this is not worthy of mentioning this on /. homepage since we have another critical Linux article to read and we are a bunch of fat white guys anyway.

Re:EuroTrash!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's some funny shit, you could probably make a living out of being funny.

Internet down?

[caluml]

I can't get to ft.com, news.ft.com, orange-today.co.uk just times out...
Anyone else having these problems?

Surprisingly, Slashdot is fast and responsive

Re:EuroTrash!

[Anonymous Coward]

I doubt it somehow.