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Free Software As Nigerian Scam
djeaux writes "In the November 4 issue of Syllabus, Howard Strauss, manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University, presents 'The FREE, 0% APR, Better Sex, No Effort Diet' in which he scattershoots at open source software. The Nigerian scam is part of his imagery, leading to a great quote: 'While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.' Elsewhere, Strauss describes the open source community as 'a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.'" Not everyone at Princeton agrees.
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'While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.'
Should read:
While you are installing your free open source software, you may want to write SCO a cheque, to help pay for the real cost of defending their "stolen" intellectual property which they cannot disclose and will not show to you without an NDA giving SCO exclusive rights to your first born offspring.
My rights don't need management.
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That sounds suspiciously like you want to "take your ball and go home" -- something that would be expected from a group of immature teenagers rather than respectable software developers.
Fortunately, most of us don't feel like we have to try to punish everyone in sight when somebody says something we don't like.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
you fail it!
(to the knee-jerk leftist moderators that overwhelm slashdot, read through before moderating)
If you cared to listen to Rush, he makes a LOT of coherent arguments.
He's still just wrong most of the time.
His talks may not be what you like or want to hear, but they are plainly coherent and reasoned. Then, maybe I just see that more than most because I'm a mixed moderate conservative but really a wannabe libertarian whose end views end up meeting leftist principles but not their ideas.
But just because someone is coherent doesn't mean he/she/it has the higher plain, the better principles, or the stronger values. Left, right, or middle. I'm heard asinine, stupid ass shit from all groups (and particularly on slashdot).
No one has a monopoly on ill-seasoned thinking people.
Don't read any farther if you don't want to know about the matrix
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No. He's saying that the troll's arguments are uncorroborated. The troll made the claims so the troll has to provide the evidence. It's not up to the Slashdotter to provide evidence to disprove the claims.
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Let's take a look at this
did you actually scan in a copy of your signature, or did you use a wacom tablet?
I may be the wrong age-group, sex, level of intelligence or just sense of humour, but most of Homestar Runner seems pretty crap to me.
However.
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