"Desktop Linux... biggest wins yet for open-source software: what do you know -- competition works!"
Three of the brightest car engineers from Ford, GM and Chryler met one evening and decided to design and built a new dream car. A car that was more reliable, faster and consumed less gas than any other car in the industry. A car that would show the world! - And the best thing: it was for free!
The oil companies loved it - and promoted it like crazy! If everybody would drive a car then the gas consumption will just sky-rocket! And the oil prizes went up.
And so more and more people got the free car and loved it - and the gas companies loved it and the engineers loved it and there was only love.
The next day the engineers got back to work and were tremendously surprised that they were layed off with 231 other engineers.
On the way home they had to stop at the gas station and suddenly it became clear that they they wouldn't be able afford the gas anymore.
Mmh! what a weird story.
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"Desktop Linux ... biggest wins yet for open-source software: what do you know -- competition works!"
Three of the brightest car engineers from Ford, GM and Chryler met one evening and decided to design and built a new dream car. A car that was more reliable, faster and consumed less gas than any other car in the industry. A car that would show the world! - And the best thing: it was for free!
The oil companies loved it - and promoted it like crazy! If everybody would drive a car then the gas consumption will just sky-rocket! And the oil prizes went up.
And so more and more people got the free car and loved it - and the gas companies loved it and the engineers loved it and there was only love.
The next day the engineers got back to work and were tremendously surprised that they were layed off with 231 other engineers.
On the way home they had to stop at the gas station and suddenly it became clear that they they wouldn't be able afford the gas anymore.
Mmh! what a weird story.