I've been porting our Access databases to Perl / Gtk2 and I've been having a great time doing it. It's a little more complicated that Access, but much faster and much more versatile. I'm just sorry I didn't stick at it the first time I tried. I would have saved myself a lot of duplicated development now...
People who visit LinuxToday most likely know about Microsoft's bullshit. Why not leave the ads there, and encourage people to click them. I know whenever I see one of Microsoft's ads, I click it, so the web site gets some more advertising money from Microsoft. Surely this is the sensible way to deal with Microsoft, as it keeps the money flowing into our favourite web sites and doesn't cause any harm.
To be honest, the closed-source drivers are *better* than what FOSS alternatives offer at this time for Nvidia and ATI.
I don't think so.
Maybe you're right with the nVidia stuff, but only because there are no open source alternatives.
But when it comes to ATI, they're drivers are absolute CRAP. I had a Radeon 7200 ( a 64MB DDR VIVO card ) and was running XFree86-4.3.99-something. I could run Unreal Tournament 2004 ( demo ) at 800x600 with respectable performance ( I've got an Athlon 2100XP, by the way ). When I 'upgraded' to my Radeon 9600, I discovered, much to my horror, that it was based on an R350 chip, and the open source drivers don't support it yet. So I switched to ATI's drivers. Within 9 hours, my system had locked hard while running xscreensaver. I rebooted to see a list of 150 or so remnants of files that were being deleted. I have now disabled xscreensaver, hoping this will avoid constant lockups with the 3D part of the driver. When I play Unreal Tournament 2004 demo now, I can manage an amazing 800x600, with acceptable performance, with all the settings exactly the same. But now it crashes every 15 minutes or so. These drivers are absolute shit. The performance is something to be positively ashamed of, and the crashes... well.. I haven't had my open-source Radeon drivers lock up on me in over a year.
ATI's drivers are most certainly NOT 'kicking the stuffing out of anything in the FOSS community'. Quite the opposite, in fact. And if you disagree with me, I will gladly swap my POS Radeon 9600 with anything that has an R2xx chip ( so I can use some real drivers ), or even a bloody nVidia.
Nuclear power is great for those who are willing do manage the nuclear waste until such time as it is safe to eat - which I believe is hundreds of millions of years into the future.
Americans should never be allowed to use nuclear power, however, because they simply export their waste ( current exports include nuclear, electronic and toxic chemical waste ) to other countries who have leaders stupid enough to accept the waste. In many cases, these leaders are of course supported by the US with under-the-table contributions as well as military gifts.
Put simply, nuclear energy has great potential to power a planet's industry, however human society is not mature enough to manage the waste yet. It only takes one accident to render large portions of a country hostile to life for millions of years. We don't have the right to do that.
Right. So if our observable universe in only part of a greater whole, what's to say that different parts of the universe don't have differing rates of expansion, and are simply beyond the range of our observation?
Monsanto are one of the ugliest examples of corporate greed in existence. Their plan is to patent all of the food supply, and leech of all those able to pay. All those not able to pay will no doubt have their crops fall victim to some chemically triggered distaster. But it doesn't end there. Monsanto have already started purchasing 'rights' to natural water supplies in parts of Africa. Of course they will be selling the water back to those most able to pay, and telling eveyone else to go fuck themselves.
But my rage at Monsanto masks the fact that GM products themselves are dangerous products that are not fit for consumption and pose a large threat to the long-term viability of live on Earth. Replacing numerous varieties of organic crops that have been integrated into the ecosystem with a single GM product is called 'monoculture', and it opens us to the risk of catastrophic food shortages if that single crop falls victim to disease, or simply degenerates into an unviable crop ( GM products aren't necessarily genetically stable... ).
And then there are problems with genes migrating between species. Bacteria are constantly swapping genes with each other. They are also known to lift genes out of other organisms, incorporate them into their own genetic code, and deposit them into yet other organisms they come across. So say Monsanto, in their infinite wisdom, create a gene that causes their product to produce pesticide ( which they have done ). Firstly, you're eating pesticide. This is not good. Secondly, the bacteria in your stomach is quite able to transplant that gene into you. This is also not good. If you stomach starts producing pesticide, I'd say you're in trouble.
This point above would be fine if people had a fucking choice about what they were eating. The Free Trade Agreement that the US are about to sign with us ( Australia ) includes MORE 'rights' for US companies to dump GM products on our market, UNLABELLED. And the companies are then not required to answer truthfully to us the contents of their products if asked.
And then there's the little point about GM products infecting the sancity of organic products by cross-pollination.
I say fuck Monsanto and the horse they rode in on ( imperialism ). My food supply and my ecosystem are not commodities for ANYONE to own or tamper with. Access to clean, safe food is a basic right of all life forms. In many ways, Monsanto are pushing my buttons even more than fucking Bush and his 'war on terrorism'. At least I'm not particularly likely of coming under his definition of a terrorist. Come to think of it though, Monsanto are cruising for a bruising...
When I used the word 'universe' I put it in quotations to point out that what we currently think of as our universe is in fact a small cluster of matter in a much bigger universe.
And what problems does an infinite number of big bangs present?
Complaining about not being able to fuck up everyone else's environment is not going to make you any friends. The simple fact is that we only have one world, and if your ego is dependant upon your current ridiculous rate of consumption then you are in for a surprise, because it's not sustainable.
Instead of bitching about such wacky concepts as ecological sustainability, why not do something useful, like research a renewable energy source? You'll have to sell your shares in AMPOL and co first. Oh yeah, and drop that 'me-first' attitude. You probably got that from your fellow Americans, right?
He wrote to Stephen Hawking and got a response and a lifetime membership to some university physics publication - sorry I'm a bit short on the details.
Anyway, his theory goes like this:
Instead of having a single 'big bang' and 'big crunch', there are an infinite number of them. As we move out from the gravitational centre of our big bang, we approach other such 'universes' which have their own centre of a 'big bang'. The gravitational effects of our own centre get smaller, while the gravitational effects of other centres get larger, and the same happens for all other parts of our 'universe'.
So instead of some mystical dark matter / dark force which is blowing our universe apart, we simply have traditional gravitational forces at work.
That's what I understood of what he said anyway. He went on for a fair while indeed, and it all sounded coherent.
I like his theory ( and others ) better than the 'dark matter' / 'dark energy' theories, which remind me of the theory of the 'ether' from not too far in the past. When you have to start dreaming up whole families of exotic particles that have never been encountered before and will cost billions of dollars to research, you have to wonder if:
a) Your theories need a major reworking b) Your motivation isn't entirely scientific
2. Yes there were plently of excuses aired as to why we should invade Iraq. Apparently the Bush administration, the CIA and the Pentagon argued at great lengths over which excuse to use, and WMD was all they could agree on. The one thing worse than a big lie used to start a war is a collection of big lies used to start a war. I beleive the court at Nuremberg called this type of war the 'ultimate crime' that 'contained all other crimes'.
3. Bullshit. Iraq is a conquest. The war is on everybody who disagrees with the US's wars of conquest. As an antiwar demonstrator, I can personally testify that our local police see me as the enemy, and use the same sort of rough-handling tactics as the US occupying forces to 'keep us in line'.
4. You think you can take anything you don't agree with and slap an 'Al Qaeda' tag on it. That's pretty handy, but very flawed logic. In fact, there is now speculation that the beheading of Nick Berg was arranged and paid for by the US to shift the focus away from the US's war crimes. You have to admit, the US have been taking a beating recently. The timing was remarkable. And even if the above speculation turns out to be untrue, if the US invaded my country and treated my people the way the Iraqis are being treated, I'm sure I'd think about doing the same thing, and I certainly wouldn't be alone. But all this talk al Al Qaeda ignores the fact that it is official policy to systematically toture, rape and execute Iraqi civilians. That heartless bitch that's had her pictures splashed all over the news recently ( you know, the one with the stupid grin who points at the Iraqis in various homosexual poses ) claims ( as do her partners in crime ) that she was merely following orders. Some orders!
6. Resorting to taking quotes from other war criminals? Well done. But your quote is good advice for your fearless leader. Surely Baby Bush is one of the biggest dickheads to ever graze the US's pastures. Is he the best you could do. Really? That's pretty sad. The man doesn't have a fucking clue, and as your wise quote points out, he'd be much better off shutting his mouth and letting people wonder.
Why don't I volunteer for a suicide squad? Because I have things to live for. You clearly still don't understand what makes a terrorist. It's simple. So simple, even a fucking Yankee could understand it. You kill someone's family, take away their home, destroy their community and make sure to take anything else they might possibly be able to call their own. After that, they're a terrorist. But I'm sure there are Americans who share my horror at what the majority support ( calling them sheep is insulting to sheep ), and a small percentage of them will be terminally ill. They are your problem. They have very little to loose, and if you keep up your attitude and foreign policy, Bin Laden will be the least of your worries; you'll have plently of home-grown terrorists to defend yourself from. And while I won't go quite so far as to say "bring them on", I will point out that karma always catches up with you. It's only a matter of time.
Because he's a right-wing bastard like Bush and Howard.
You think he's against any of what's happened? Sure, he makes some concerned noises occasionally to make out to his people that he's the voice of reason, but Bush, Blair and Howard decided from day 1 what they were going to do, and everything else has been lies, deception, thuggery and murder.
And that is why we need a world government that can overrule all other governments. This would probably not be a good thing for smaller countries, but would at least put a limit on the things the US could get away with.
I think it's entirely fitting that US flag is displayed alongside this topic. The only things missing are maybe an Israeli flag and a picture of the greenback. It helps to show how things are related...
The hypocracy of the US manufacturing these Weapons of Mass Destruction is probably lost on most Americans. I'm sure they were screaming and wollowing in self-pity when they saw the video of the US citizen being beheaded. But they conveniently sweep under the carpet the fact that while that incident was carried out by a small group of desperate people trying to protect their countries from a brutal occupying force, it is standard procedure for US soldiers to carry out torture, rape and executions of Iraqi civilians. The handful of soldiers in the shit over it at the moment are all claiming that they were following orders of their superior officer, and that they were in turn following orders from CIA officers. The guy in charge of the prison where all the action has been uncovered was removed from control of a US prison in the 70s for doing exactly the same thing to prisoners back then.
The whole thing stinks of war crimes to me.
But as I said, this will be lost on most Americans, who will be cheering that they are developing even better Weapons of Mass Destruction to protect themselves ( and of course to hand to the fucking Israelis - so they can protect themselves too ).
You are mistaken, aren't you. Or perhaps you like to take every opportunity to run a smear-campaign against socialism at every opportunity because you've been force-fed pro-capitalist shit since the time you were born.
The weapons certainly did come from the US, and the best ones at that. Russia and France sold Iraq conventional weapons: tanks ( as you pointed out ) and rockets. But the US gave Iraq chemical and biological weapons.
While it is true that Gentoo rules, I think people should really stick to the traditional forumula for a review:
- Set aside 60 minutes per operating system. - Install everything as fast as possible, making sure to select the default options. - Comment on how pretty each installer is - Comment on how many clicks are required to complete the installation - Compare installation times - Comment on what hardware was automatically detected - Make sure to include a screenshot of each OS running their default window manager immediately after the install is done
If people want to go to a radioactive disaster, maybe they should pick a more current one and have a look at what depleteduraniumweapons are doing to the locals. Levels of background radiation are 300 times what they were before the 'shock and awe' terrorist campaign.
I would like to see a clause in the GLP that strictly forbids terrorist organisations such as the CIA and US military etc, and other ethically-challenged organisations such as Monsanto ( who want to own ALL of the world's water and seed stocks ), McDonalds, etc from using the software.
It's all very well to release your work and say "everyone should benefit from this", but when you work makes it easier for the US to invade sovereign nations, steal their resources and cherry-pick their political representatives, I think many people would agree that the hard work of OS developers is being abused.
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I've been porting our Access databases to Perl / Gtk2 and I've been having a great time doing it. It's a little more complicated that Access, but much faster and much more versatile. I'm just sorry I didn't stick at it the first time I tried. I would have saved myself a lot of duplicated development now...
People who visit LinuxToday most likely know about Microsoft's bullshit. Why not leave the ads there, and encourage people to click them. I know whenever I see one of Microsoft's ads, I click it, so the web site gets some more advertising money from Microsoft. Surely this is the sensible way to deal with Microsoft, as it keeps the money flowing into our favourite web sites and doesn't cause any harm.
That's a damned good signature you've got there. :)
I will forward it to our local peace groups and left-leaning organisations
I don't think so.
Maybe you're right with the nVidia stuff, but only because there are no open source alternatives.
But when it comes to ATI, they're drivers are absolute CRAP. I had a Radeon 7200 ( a 64MB DDR VIVO card ) and was running XFree86-4.3.99-something. I could run Unreal Tournament 2004 ( demo ) at 800x600 with respectable performance ( I've got an Athlon 2100XP, by the way ). When I 'upgraded' to my Radeon 9600, I discovered, much to my horror, that it was based on an R350 chip, and the open source drivers don't support it yet. So I switched to ATI's drivers. Within 9 hours, my system had locked hard while running xscreensaver. I rebooted to see a list of 150 or so remnants of files that were being deleted. I have now disabled xscreensaver, hoping this will avoid constant lockups with the 3D part of the driver. When I play Unreal Tournament 2004 demo now, I can manage an amazing 800x600, with acceptable performance, with all the settings exactly the same. But now it crashes every 15 minutes or so. These drivers are absolute shit . The performance is something to be positively ashamed of, and the crashes
ATI's drivers are most certainly NOT 'kicking the stuffing out of anything in the FOSS community'. Quite the opposite, in fact. And if you disagree with me, I will gladly swap my POS Radeon 9600 with anything that has an R2xx chip ( so I can use some real drivers ), or even a bloody nVidia.
Nuclear power is great for those who are willing do manage the nuclear waste until such time as it is safe to eat - which I believe is hundreds of millions of years into the future.
Americans should never be allowed to use nuclear power, however, because they simply export their waste ( current exports include nuclear, electronic and toxic chemical waste ) to other countries who have leaders stupid enough to accept the waste. In many cases, these leaders are of course supported by the US with under-the-table contributions as well as military gifts.
Put simply, nuclear energy has great potential to power a planet's industry, however human society is not mature enough to manage the waste yet. It only takes one accident to render large portions of a country hostile to life for millions of years. We don't have the right to do that.
With the US's current terrorism-mania, you can't have just anyone launching things into space, now can you?
Or are these 'private' space ports closely linked to the US government like Halliburton and co?
Right. So if our observable universe in only part of a greater whole, what's to say that different parts of the universe don't have differing rates of expansion, and are simply beyond the range of our observation?
That's an understatement if there ever was one.
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Monsanto are one of the ugliest examples of corporate greed in existence. Their plan is to patent all of the food supply, and leech of all those able to pay. All those not able to pay will no doubt have their crops fall victim to some chemically triggered distaster. But it doesn't end there. Monsanto have already started purchasing 'rights' to natural water supplies in parts of Africa. Of course they will be selling the water back to those most able to pay, and telling eveyone else to go fuck themselves.
But my rage at Monsanto masks the fact that GM products themselves are dangerous products that are not fit for consumption and pose a large threat to the long-term viability of live on Earth. Replacing numerous varieties of organic crops that have been integrated into the ecosystem with a single GM product is called 'monoculture', and it opens us to the risk of catastrophic food shortages if that single crop falls victim to disease, or simply degenerates into an unviable crop ( GM products aren't necessarily genetically stable... ).
And then there are problems with genes migrating between species. Bacteria are constantly swapping genes with each other. They are also known to lift genes out of other organisms, incorporate them into their own genetic code, and deposit them into yet other organisms they come across. So say Monsanto, in their infinite wisdom, create a gene that causes their product to produce pesticide ( which they have done ). Firstly, you're eating pesticide. This is not good. Secondly, the bacteria in your stomach is quite able to transplant that gene into you . This is also not good. If you stomach starts producing pesticide, I'd say you're in trouble.
This point above would be fine if people had a fucking choice about what they were eating. The Free Trade Agreement that the US are about to sign with us ( Australia ) includes MORE 'rights' for US companies to dump GM products on our market, UNLABELLED. And the companies are then not required to answer truthfully to us the contents of their products if asked.
And then there's the little point about GM products infecting the sancity of organic products by cross-pollination.
I say fuck Monsanto and the horse they rode in on ( imperialism ). My food supply and my ecosystem are not commodities for ANYONE to own or tamper with. Access to clean, safe food is a basic right of all life forms. In many ways, Monsanto are pushing my buttons even more than fucking Bush and his 'war on terrorism'. At least I'm not particularly likely of coming under his definition of a terrorist. Come to think of it though, Monsanto are cruising for a bruising...
More info on Monsanto:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/genetics/monsant
Google for more. They're fucking bastards!
When I used the word 'universe' I put it in quotations to point out that what we currently think of as our universe is in fact a small cluster of matter in a much bigger universe.
And what problems does an infinite number of big bangs present?
Complaining about not being able to fuck up everyone else's environment is not going to make you any friends. The simple fact is that we only have one world, and if your ego is dependant upon your current ridiculous rate of consumption then you are in for a surprise, because it's not sustainable.
Instead of bitching about such wacky concepts as ecological sustainability, why not do something useful, like research a renewable energy source? You'll have to sell your shares in AMPOL and co first. Oh yeah, and drop that 'me-first' attitude. You probably got that from your fellow Americans, right?
My Dad has the same idea.
He wrote to Stephen Hawking and got a response and a lifetime membership to some university physics publication - sorry I'm a bit short on the details.
Anyway, his theory goes like this:
Instead of having a single 'big bang' and 'big crunch', there are an infinite number of them. As we move out from the gravitational centre of our big bang, we approach other such 'universes' which have their own centre of a 'big bang'. The gravitational effects of our own centre get smaller, while the gravitational effects of other centres get larger, and the same happens for all other parts of our 'universe'.
So instead of some mystical dark matter / dark force which is blowing our universe apart, we simply have traditional gravitational forces at work.
That's what I understood of what he said anyway. He went on for a fair while indeed, and it all sounded coherent.
I like his theory ( and others ) better than the 'dark matter' / 'dark energy' theories, which remind me of the theory of the 'ether' from not too far in the past. When you have to start dreaming up whole families of exotic particles that have never been encountered before and will cost billions of dollars to research, you have to wonder if:
a) Your theories need a major reworking
b) Your motivation isn't entirely scientific
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Now which American with their head in the sand will be the first to push it all aside and lunacy from evil anti-capitalist swine?
Wow! Thanks for raising the bar for all other AC posters.
There are certainly some barbaric pieces of shit in this world, and they are mostly American. Keep in mind who invaded who.
2. Yes there were plently of excuses aired as to why we should invade Iraq. Apparently the Bush administration, the CIA and the Pentagon argued at great lengths over which excuse to use, and WMD was all they could agree on. The one thing worse than a big lie used to start a war is a collection of big lies used to start a war. I beleive the court at Nuremberg called this type of war the 'ultimate crime' that 'contained all other crimes'.
3. Bullshit. Iraq is a conquest. The war is on everybody who disagrees with the US's wars of conquest. As an antiwar demonstrator, I can personally testify that our local police see me as the enemy, and use the same sort of rough-handling tactics as the US occupying forces to 'keep us in line'.
4. You think you can take anything you don't agree with and slap an 'Al Qaeda' tag on it. That's pretty handy, but very flawed logic. In fact, there is now speculation that the beheading of Nick Berg was arranged and paid for by the US to shift the focus away from the US's war crimes. You have to admit, the US have been taking a beating recently. The timing was remarkable. And even if the above speculation turns out to be untrue, if the US invaded my country and treated my people the way the Iraqis are being treated, I'm sure I'd think about doing the same thing, and I certainly wouldn't be alone. But all this talk al Al Qaeda ignores the fact that it is official policy to systematically toture, rape and execute Iraqi civilians. That heartless bitch that's had her pictures splashed all over the news recently ( you know, the one with the stupid grin who points at the Iraqis in various homosexual poses ) claims ( as do her partners in crime ) that she was merely following orders . Some orders!
6. Resorting to taking quotes from other war criminals? Well done. But your quote is good advice for your fearless leader. Surely Baby Bush is one of the biggest dickheads to ever graze the US's pastures. Is he the best you could do. Really? That's pretty sad. The man doesn't have a fucking clue, and as your wise quote points out, he'd be much better off shutting his mouth and letting people wonder.
Why don't I volunteer for a suicide squad?
Because I have things to live for.
You clearly still don't understand what makes a terrorist. It's simple. So simple, even a fucking Yankee could understand it. You kill someone's family, take away their home, destroy their community and make sure to take anything else they might possibly be able to call their own. After that, they're a terrorist.
But I'm sure there are Americans who share my horror at what the majority support ( calling them sheep is insulting to sheep ), and a small percentage of them will be terminally ill. They are your problem. They have very little to loose, and if you keep up your attitude and foreign policy, Bin Laden will be the least of your worries; you'll have plently of home-grown terrorists to defend yourself from.
And while I won't go quite so far as to say "bring them on", I will point out that karma always catches up with you. It's only a matter of time.
Depleted Uraniam is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Because he's a right-wing bastard like Bush and Howard.
You think he's against any of what's happened? Sure, he makes some concerned noises occasionally to make out to his people that he's the voice of reason, but Bush, Blair and Howard decided from day 1 what they were going to do, and everything else has been lies, deception, thuggery and murder.
Exactly.
And that is why we need a world government that can overrule all other governments. This would probably not be a good thing for smaller countries, but would at least put a limit on the things the US could get away with.
I think it's entirely fitting that US flag is displayed alongside this topic. The only things missing are maybe an Israeli flag and a picture of the greenback. It helps to show how things are related...
The hypocracy of the US manufacturing these Weapons of Mass Destruction is probably lost on most Americans. I'm sure they were screaming and wollowing in self-pity when they saw the video of the US citizen being beheaded. But they conveniently sweep under the carpet the fact that while that incident was carried out by a small group of desperate people trying to protect their countries from a brutal occupying force, it is standard procedure for US soldiers to carry out torture, rape and executions of Iraqi civilians. The handful of soldiers in the shit over it at the moment are all claiming that they were following orders of their superior officer, and that they were in turn following orders from CIA officers. The guy in charge of the prison where all the action has been uncovered was removed from control of a US prison in the 70s for doing exactly the same thing to prisoners back then.
The whole thing stinks of war crimes to me.
But as I said, this will be lost on most Americans, who will be cheering that they are developing even better Weapons of Mass Destruction to protect themselves ( and of course to hand to the fucking Israelis - so they can protect themselves too ).
And you wonder what causes terrorism!
Socialists?
You are mistaken, aren't you. Or perhaps you like to take every opportunity to run a smear-campaign against socialism at every opportunity because you've been force-fed pro-capitalist shit since the time you were born.
The weapons certainly did come from the US, and the best ones at that. Russia and France sold Iraq conventional weapons: tanks ( as you pointed out ) and rockets. But the US gave Iraq chemical and biological weapons.
Links? Sure.
Arse-hole Rumsfield shaking hands with Iraq over a biological weapons deal.
A long blurb about the history of the Iran / Iraq war.
Robert Byrd questions the US Senate over the US's shipment of "witches' brew of pathogens," including anthrax, botulinum toxin and gangrene.
And don't call me a moron you fucking arrogant moron.
Obviously what we need at the moment is some more Yankee justice.
And what better way to grace the world with such an experience, eh? The best God-damned technology energy weapons.
Thanks again, USA, for saving the world from those who have weapons that you gave them last year by bringing tomorrow's warfare into today.
Life forms should NEVER be patented.
This includes whole species, DNA strands, theoretical life forms, THE LOT.
Companies have NO RIGHT to be patenting life itself, which should be held sacred above all else, for philosophical, ecological and societal reasons.
THAT MEANS YOU, MONSANTO!
While it is true that Gentoo rules, I think people should really stick to the traditional forumula for a review:
- Set aside 60 minutes per operating system.
- Install everything as fast as possible, making sure to select the default options.
- Comment on how pretty each installer is
- Comment on how many clicks are required to complete the installation
- Compare installation times
- Comment on what hardware was automatically detected
- Make sure to include a screenshot of each OS running their default window manager immediately after the install is done
Have I missed anything?
If people want to go to a radioactive disaster, maybe they should pick a more current one and have a look at what depleted uranium weapons are doing to the locals. Levels of background radiation are 300 times what they were before the 'shock and awe' terrorist campaign.
I would like to see a clause in the GLP that strictly forbids terrorist organisations such as the CIA and US military etc, and other ethically-challenged organisations such as Monsanto ( who want to own ALL of the world's water and seed stocks ), McDonalds, etc from using the software.
It's all very well to release your work and say "everyone should benefit from this", but when you work makes it easier for the US to invade sovereign nations, steal their resources and cherry-pick their political representatives, I think many people would agree that the hard work of OS developers is being abused.