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Eric Raymond's Homebrew SCO Poison
What Can You Expect From A University Named "UH?" writes "Eric S. Raymond responds to Darl McBride's charge that he's drinking IBM's Kool-Aid in SCO's fight against Linux.
The main thrust: Yes, there is an alliance against SCO, but, like the Open Source movement itself, it arises from lots of folks spontaneously striving for a common goal. 'It's beyond me how [you] can have the gall to talk as though we need funding or marching orders from IBM to mobilize against you. IBM couldn't stop us from mobilizing!' "
What are you thinking?
The first two links are switched. Unless the article is in my mail client.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Just because a man owns guns doesn't mean that he's "cooking up some kind of home invasion." In fact, quite the opposite is true. Most people who own guns intend to use them solely in the event of a home invasion.
But at this point, you just want to point fingers and make ad hominem attacks. Sorry. I'm not responding to you any more.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
Here is another rant on how the US should crush the muslim civilisation. Very tasty.
I used to have respect for him but reading his blog made me sick, not to mention the ones he links to.
"...but I live in the US, not one of you more violent countries..."
since when?! We've had civil war, forced annexation of lands belonging to other countries, wars against several major European and Asian powers, one of the largest arsenals of nukes ever assembled, and that's all on a government level. On a personal level, we have gang violence like drive-by shootings, muggings, armed robbery, thrill-killing, killing of people because they are in a neighbourhood with the wrong skin pigmentation, domestic and foreign terrorism, and many other problems...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Enry: Shut up.
Just because you have a lower slashdot ID than me doesn't make you right or a representative of the community as a whole. Your shrill criticisism of ESR's message is juvenile and your embarrasment is your own concern.
Everyone else with a strongly-held opinion attempting to sway others to the cause, and writing screeds attempting to rally like-minded people to a cause: Shut up! Enry doesn't want to hear from you, so just shut up. Shut up he says.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
"The biggest thing with the 10 commandments case in Alabama is " ..
.. and all the rest of the God talk) he would be up on a charge of "anti-secular activities".
That the TaliBorn-again are worshipping a rock in the name of Christianity.
The major diff between the Taliban and our Religious Right is that the Taliban were more succesfull at taking over a goverment. Check out Rushdoony's writings for a glimpse at the ultimate desires of our own theocrats.
I was in Turkey a year ago, back when Gul was still banned from office. If a politician there started talking the way GWB does (we are all sinners, marriage is a sacrament
God save the Union from the Christians!
thank the christinans? what are you on? thse people feld a country where they were being persecuted, in what world does that set up a precedent for them to persecute others? or force others to follow their beliefs?
The Xtians that built this country *stole* it from my people who were here first.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
President George Washington:
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
"...The Smiles of Heaven can never be expected On a Nation that disregards the eternal rules of Order and Right, which Heaven Itself Ordained."
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-- God Governs in the Affairs of Men, And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, Is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid?"
"Except the Lord build the house, They labor in vain who build it." "I firmly believe this."
John Adams
"If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness."
President James Madison
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."
(BTW, 173... wow, I got to talk to a grey-beardThe Geek in Black
I know my BCD's (when I'm Sober)