I'd like an invite if you don't mind.
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Re:running away from the world
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It seems most americans have a very short memory of the U.S. "rescue mission". Didn't the U.S. support the afghanistan "terrorists" not long ago when the evil soviet union tried to take over. Sure, the U.S. educated a lot of people and shipped them lots of weapons and did us all a favor. What did the U.S. do when the soviet union was defeated? Did they help the afghanistan rebuild their country? No. Did they leave all those weapons in place and let a extreme reliogous group take over the country? Yes. When that religous group had already become a big enough hazard did the U.S. do anything about it, and that mostly to save face when it couldn't find any real enemy to fight against.
My point of this is that U.S. DOES look another way far to often and you americans doesn't even seem to notice this.
Disclaimer. I am no way excusing the crazy religous fanatics that killed a lot of people the 11 of september. I just think that americans should realize that the world isn't so black and white that they want to make it out to be.
This whole thing with rpm vs. apt-get is a moot point IMO since connectiva proved that apt can be ported to use rpm instead of dkpg. I do feel that apt-get is a really cool thing and that I hope more distros start using it. The big problem that would hinder this is that most distros would sell fewer "upgrade" boxes than before when people with fast net access can easily upgrade it themselves. But back to my previous point, integrate the rpm port of apt-get (which is a pretty large patch outside the normal apt tree) and stop trying to shout the highest wether rpm or dkpg is the best thing since sliced bread.
Eric S. Raymond, you mentioned in a answer above that you would step down i Microsoft shares would lose a lot of it's value. Do you think Linux would have such a strong following if the anti-microsoft alibi would vanish? Would the media still be interested if the David and Goliat story didn't exist anymore?
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I'd like an invite if you don't mind. sorge AT ripley DOT se
It seems most americans have a very short memory of the U.S. "rescue mission". Didn't the U.S. support the afghanistan "terrorists" not long ago when the evil soviet union tried to take over. Sure, the U.S. educated a lot of people and shipped them lots of weapons and did us all a favor. What did the U.S. do when the soviet union was defeated? Did they help the afghanistan rebuild their country? No. Did they leave all those weapons in place and let a extreme reliogous group take over the country? Yes. When that religous group had already become a big enough hazard did the U.S. do anything about it, and that mostly to save face when it couldn't find any real enemy to fight against.
My point of this is that U.S. DOES look another way far to often and you americans doesn't even seem to notice this.
Disclaimer. I am no way excusing the crazy religous fanatics that killed a lot of people the 11 of september. I just think that americans should realize that the world isn't so black and white that they want to make it out to be.
This whole thing with rpm vs. apt-get is a moot point IMO since connectiva proved that apt can be ported to use rpm instead of dkpg. I do feel that apt-get is a really cool thing and that I hope more distros start using it. The big problem that would hinder this is that most distros would sell fewer "upgrade" boxes than before when people with fast net access can easily upgrade it themselves. But back to my previous point, integrate the rpm port of apt-get (which is a pretty large patch outside the normal apt tree) and stop trying to shout the highest wether rpm or dkpg is the best thing since sliced bread.
It's originaly from the *bad* translated japanese videogame "Zero Wing" to sega genesis. Look here for a nice flash sequence from the game.
Eric S. Raymond, you mentioned in a answer above that you would step down i Microsoft shares would lose a lot of it's value. Do you think Linux would have such a strong following if the anti-microsoft alibi would vanish? Would the media still be interested if the David and Goliat story didn't exist anymore?