__/ [ Mathew P. ] on Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:44 \__
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> On 2006-03-14, Lobo spake thusly:
>> http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html
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>> Now it came to pass that Microsoft had waxed great and mighty among
>> the Microchip Corporations; mighter than any of the Mainframe
>> Corporations before it had it waxed. And Gates heart was hardened, and
>> he swore unto his Customers and their Engineers the words of this
>> curse:
>>
>> "Children of von Neumann, hear me. IBM and the Mainframe Corporations
>> bound thy forefathers with grave and perilous Licences, such that ye
>> cried unto the spirits of Turing and von Neumann for deliverance. Now
>> I say unto ye: I am greater than any Corporation before me. Will I
>> loosen your Licences? Nay, I will bind thee with Licences twice as
>> grave and ten times more perilous than my forefathers. I will engrave
>> my Licence on thy heart and write my Serial Number upon thy frontal
>> lobes. I will bind thee to the Windows Platform with cunning artifices
>> and with devious schemes. I will bind thee to the Intel Chipset with
>> crufty code and with gnarly APIs. I will capture and enslave thee as
>> no generation has been enslaved before. And wherefore will ye cry then
>> unto the spirits of Turing, and von Neumann, and Moore? They cannot
>> hear ye. I am become a greater Power than they. Ye shall cry only unto
>> me, and shall live by my mercy and my wrath. I am the Gates of Hell; I
>> hold the portal to MSNBC and the keys to the Blue Screen of Death. Be
>> ye afraid; be ye greatly afraid; serve only me, and live."
>>
>> And the people were cowed in terror and gave homage to Microsoft, and
>> endured the many grave and perilous trials which the Windows platform
>> and its greatly bogacious Licence forced upon them. And once again did
>> they cry to Turing and von Neumann and Moore for a deliverer, but none
>> was found equal to the task until the birth of Linux.
>
> ROTFL! Great page, thanks!
That's probably the most eloquent anti-Gates fanaticism I have yet come
across.
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