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Brazil Mandates Shift to Free Software
truthsearch writes "LinuxToday is reporting news and a response about Brazil making Open Source mandatory for 80% of all computers in state institutions and businesses, setting up a 'Chamber for the Implementation of Software Libre.'" This is a big win for Linux, but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not always be an open source product.
It has come to my attention that a news site "for grown-ups", that has gradually turned into a hate site filled with reactionary anti-Linux anti-opensouce anti-AMD anti-everythingthatistheunderdog, has died.
Gaaah... I hated that site. I remember there was an article there called "is your son a computer hacker?" that was SO obviously wrong and ignorant that it just makes my blood boil to think of the lies that that idiot who wrote the article said. This was also the site that made up the comic strip "Linux zealot", that showed some stoned teenager that spent his life using Linux in vain. In one of them, there was a line that said something like "yay... finally Linux has a start button, and I wrote it in Perl, too bad it crashes half the time I click it" obviously thes people had no idea what Linux was about.
Then, I think the same dude who draws that comic made a comparison between Linux and Windows at which one is more cost effective. It was obviously a POS. He claimed that Linux cost him $79.99 while Windows came with the computer. WTF is that? The price for Windows was tacked onto the computer, and any idiot who wants to tries Linux could obviously get a distro off the net for free.
There could not be a better fate for a reactionary(ultra, ultra conservative) site filled with hate propaganda against everything that is new.
Yeah, go ahead, mod this way down.
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From: "William Scott Lockwood III" (scottlockwood@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 11, 2001 11:22:53 US/Eastern
To: scottlockwood@hotmail.com
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Subject: Mojopocalypse II
Okay, here's the scoop - I'm going to totally declare war on Kuro5hin on Wednesday. I will be releasing a script (that I am actually paying someone to write) that will "autotarget" and mod for you. Basically, you'll log into K5, and give the script a username, and it will then commence to fuck that person hard by rating every single post a 1, or a 0. I'm also asking the person I am paying to write the script (sad, I know - don't go there) to allow you to select what you want things rated at - that way, you can also mod everyone else UP with that account. Basically, this reduces the work load to creating new accounts.
Warm Regards,
Scott
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IM: bbwa1969
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