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Trademarks Considered Harmful To Open Source
An anonymous reader touts a blog posting up at PC World titled "Trademarks: The Hidden Menace." Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet completely ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as corrosive to the freedom that open source projects strive to embody. "Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further business ends. ... Is this how open source is supposed to work? Restricted redistribution? Tight control on who can compile software and still be able to call it by its proper name? ... Trademarking is almost totally incompatible with the essential freedom offered by open source. Trademarking is a way of severely limiting all activity on a particular product to that which you approve of. ... If an open source company embraces trademarks then it embraces this philosophy. On the one hand it advocates freedom, and [on] the other it takes it away."
Atheism is the absense of religion. Agnosticism is an acknowledgement that god has not yet been proven to not exist. It's just simple honesty, though I feel that god like in the Bible is about as likely as having god be a 7 foot tall bunny made of spaghetti, used video tape and lug nuts.
Well, it's a joke. But in any case, almost all atheists I have met are agnostics in that sense. I feel that the chance of any gods existence (I believe about 2000 has been documented) is about as likely as a dropped beer can not falling according to the laws of gravity, thus I call myself an atheist. From what you say you would be an atheist too, in the sense I feel I am.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.