__/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 04 March 2007 02:38 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>> Rafael <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>> The [H]omer award for COLA Advocate of the Week:
>>>>
>>>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> on the value of Freedom
>>>> (in response to a Troll):
>>>>
>>>> .----
>>>> | > Most things free are usually worth what you pay for them.
>>>> |
>>>> | Really?
>>>> | - You pay to walk wherever you like in the streets?
>>>> | - You pay for your speech?
>>>> | - You bought your wife?
>>>> | - You pay for your sex?
>>>> | - You bought your kids?
>>>> | - These are worth nothing to you?
>>>> |
>>>> | Can I interest you in a bridge?
>>>> `----
>>> I missed that one, good catch! This is a practical antithesis to
>>> usual troll statements like, "Pony up the bucks."
>>>
>>
>> Indeed it was...
>>
>> Homer - thanks for keeping up with the stats - most appreciated.
>
> Don't thank me, thank my server. I just watch it happen :)
>
> The most I have to do, is once a week:
>
> cat Desktop/stuff.txt >/mnt/sky/cola/cola-advocate-of-the-week.txt
>
> Actually I haven't seen that server in a while, it could probably use
> a dusting. I'll have to follow the cat cables, 'cos I think I've
> forgotten where it is ... again.
It's eerily similar to my own cron jobs, which have static text prepended to
stats that are generated once in X days and then written as a text file that
shows up on the ~/Desktop. I haven't posted them for a while though. COLA
became kind of exclusive as far as UseNet in concerned... in due time.
I feel like what we do here is much more important. Q&A's serve as
documentation, but if trolls are filling the Web with "undocumentation" and
anti-PR, then what's the use? Advocacy is to Free software what marketing is
to a corporation. Documentation is like support. Linux doesn't sell
anything, whereas companies do.
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