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Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:21:41 -0400, Joel wrote:
>
>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.

Although off-topic, I will note that once had to work all day on software and
such in a mockup of an ATC radar room. The geezer who ran the lab was a decent
fellow, but he always had Rush on the radio, bellowing and bloviating.

Then after Rush was some other wack-wing talk show.

Around that time there was a left-wing talk show, not quite as loud and
bigoted.

Then on the drive in I used to listen to that curmudgeon Don Imus, which was
sometimes amusing. One example, "The Dick Scope" where the ghost of Richard
Nixon would deliver his foul-mouthed take on current events. Another was
"Beavis and Bubba" (Bubba being Bill Clinton). My favorite Imus neologism?
"Pantload".

-- 
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you look it up, you can eventually reaffirm what you thought you knew
but weren't sure.  But if you're searching for something you don't
already know, your fingers could walk themselves to death.  -- Erma Bombeck

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Why All Software Should Be Open Source Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2024-10-10 19:25 +0000
  Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 15:35 -0400
    Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Phillip Frabott <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> - 2024-10-10 16:07 -0400
      Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 16:11 -0400
  Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 16:39 -0400
    Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-10-10 17:19 -0400
  Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 17:21 -0400
    Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-10 21:58 +0000
      Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-11 10:43 -0400
  Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2024-10-11 20:10 +0000
  Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2024-10-11 20:28 +0000

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