Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Date: 10 Oct 2024 21:58:10 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uwvFgGPOMNEXZ+iOf2klEQ7LZDPraZ3ongHZDFUgCc0CShQb4m Cancel-Lock: sha1:mEfxuxcpnob1dzfGPQ6EKBuTL7E= sha256:uQU7Fa/6k3ECuYYya4jsDm4ZFDew/3+kYq28S3eS3aM= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:673150 comp.os.linux.misc:59291 alt.os.linux:80612 On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:21:41 -0400, Joel wrote: > rbowman wrote: >>On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:47 -0400, bad sector wrote: >> >>> The survival of society cannot be left to bean-counters so anything >>> that is essential infrastructure should be cost + $1 if not free >>> (state run in other words). >> >>That would presume a much more effective state; the current ones >>couldn't run a church picnic. Where they probably could rise to >>effectiveness is in censoring anything that doesn't have the state's >>seal of approval. >> >>I won't even go into how the state provides 'free' gibs by picking the >>pockets of its citizens at implied gunpoint. > > > Give Rush Limbaugh the presidential medal of freedom!!! Have to dig him up first... My ex used to listen to his, show which is a bit odd for a college educated woman living in NYC, but I was never impressed. He did have good taste in his opening music though; it must have chafed his ass the Chrissie Hynde donated the royalties from his use to PETA.