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Don't Be a Sharecropper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tim Bray, best known as an XML Heavy, has an entertaining rant about why you should be developing for *n*x, OSS, or (especially) the Web. Because if you're on a proprietary platform, you're a "sharecropper"."

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  1. LANCE ARMSTRONG IS REALLY DOPED ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why not accept the truth ? Everybody knows that US Postal team and Lan ce Armstrong are doped.

    We are pissed to see this american winning the Tour de France. Go Home Lance and let the other non-doped cycling take a chance to win this Century's Tour de France...

  2. Re:Until by sheldon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And isn't the Linux community trying to sharecrop Windows?

    Gimp is trying to sharecrop Photoshop.

    Apache sharecropped Netscape Web Server.

    and the list goes on...

  3. RIAA Cheering Section out in Force by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I think a fairly non-creative Google search will more thank back me up here.

    The RIAA's shoot first and ask questions later attitude is well documented. Now I'm beginning to wonder if they're not also employing some astroturf.

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?