India hires elephant to "stomp out piracy"

Gambit Thirty-Two pointed us to this story, in which Indian magistrates called an elephant in to "crush hundreds of pirate compact discs." This was to symbolize crushing priacy in India. And, sorta related-Nate will be in India from May 10 - June 10. If you can hook him up with telnet during that time, drop him a line/a.

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In an unrelated story . . .

[Q*bert]

In Boston, famous free software champion Richard Stallman, head of the FSF, contracted with local zookeepers to have a herd of wild gnus trample over thousands of CDs of proprietary software. When asked where he obtained funding for such a venture, Stallman replied, "We couldn't justify spending money on proprietary software, so we just asked for donations. Fortunately, the gnus are based on free DNA code, so we were able to lease them in good conscience."
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product

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[Si]

Micros~1 had a shill at my kid's school the other day, handing out frisbees with skull-n-crossbones on 'em and telling the kids `Now boys 'n' girls, don't do any naughty software piracy, and report your parents if they do.'.

Meks me mad, poisoning young minds like that[1].

My son scratched out the M$ logo on the frisbee right in front of the shill's face :) Yay! Go Josh!


[1] Not that piracy is necessarily a good thing, but I don't think Micros~1 should have any access to my son's mind.