My contribution

[Chris]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:56:57 -0500
Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Trolltech has been sold to Nokia. Nokia fights against html5. The
> > rotten -- guess what this icon is -- interface seems accepted
> > without question, but I'd bet they've lost most of their user base.
> > They certainly lost me... and Linus Torvalds :) What will those
> > developers be developing for next? Windows free software? OS X
> > software? Who knows, we might very well lose some.
> 
> Man, it was getting late! You know how dark you envision reality when
> it's late...
> 
> Of course, the boys will keep on working for Open Source! They'll work
> for The Machine. Google, ChromeOS, Android! Making a fortune with
> popular apps. Waiting to join The Organization.
> 
> And that's the nicest future Linux could dream of, you know, being
> incarnated in The Company That Does No Evil.
> 
> When other companies wake up in the morning their employees ask
> themselves: "What evil are we going to do today?" No so at Google's.
> They only follow the plan.
> 
> And the plan is having everybody on the plan-et with nice little next
> to no CPU cheap computers connecting to The Machine. Wonderful plan.
> 
> This is going to work. Whereas Linux has to fight to be installed on
> maybe .01% of the hardware, manufacturers flock to get Android.
> 
> I can almost hear new employees being greeted with a song:
> 
> Welcome my son, welcome to The Machine.
> Where have you been?
> It's alright we know where you've been.
> You've been in the pipeline, filling in time

Bartender! Gimme a hit of the same acid this guys havin!!!

-- 
Regards,

Chris

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty."

           -- Thomas Jefferson