From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 15 13:22:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27659 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27580 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10753; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <355CA3E9.393ACBD9@dal.net> Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:01 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: drifter@stratos.net CC: Matthew Cashdollar , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial software References: <199805151620.MAA18556@stratos.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org drifter@stratos.net wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 1998 08:32:38 CDT, Matthew Cashdollar wrote: > > [ I (drifter@stratos.nospam.net) wrote: ] > >> Of course, Bill Gates is no Henry Ford. (And don't tell me computers > >> give you more freedom than automobiles... I happened to be old-fashioned > >> in this regard.) > > > >I certainly hope Bill Gates is no Henry Ford. Henry Ford was a supporter of > >Nazism! He kept a picture of Adolf Hitler on his desk and sent Hitler a > >birthday card every year!! > > > >(I'm not joking..) > > Oh, boy. Looks like Godwin's Law is being invoked. (The one that > says that within three days of any post to USENET, the likelihood > of comparisons to Nazis will approach 1... Actually that's the corrolary. :) The actual Godwin rule is that the first person to invoke a comparison to nazi's loses the argument by definition. This was one of my favorite parts of the "old" usenet because judicious use of the Godwin rule could drive the particularly lame flamers into a frenzy due to their carefully written analogies to nazi germany being completely ignored. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message