Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:39:47 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? Message-ID: <20011029093947.A4241@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20011029040835.T2878-100000@big> References: <20011029040835.T2878-100000@big>
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Ok, yes it is kinda mean. Bill has been thoroughly vilified in the open/free software communities. But not entirely without reason, and not entirely undeserved. Sure he has given more money to help educate kids in technology than many of us will have made through our whole lives, but he's essentially fighting an undeclared war on freedom of computing choice. Sure I admire his educational charity work. But I like to see a little resistance to the 'you must do it my way' mentality. XBill is satire, so it must be looked upon as such. No one meant that they wanted Bill harmed, just to fan the flames of resistance a little. Ok, a lot. So, like a couple other replies in this thread suggest, just rm it and put it in your refuse file so you never have to see it again. I wouldn't want to harm the guy, but I'd sure like to have seen MS broken up. You think it would hurt him? I sincerely doubt it. I started to run into a rant about opening MS code to the public as open or free software, as rumors suggested when the initial court case went against them, but realized this would be too far OT, and probably start some kind of holy war on the list, so I decided to leave it at that. XBill isn't the only bit of anti MS satire or propaganda in the Open and Free SW communities, but I doubt that Gates needs to fear for his well being. $0.02. L On 10/29/01 04:40 AM, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa sat at the `puter and typed: > Hi everybody! > > Perhaps I am becoming a little bit moralistic these days? > In the gnome-fifth-toe collection I found a little game > called XBill. Its sense is to smash tiny pictures of Bill > Gates and some blood will be splattered when you hit him. > > Of course Bill Gates can pay enough lawyers to take care of > this himself, of course I do not have to play this game, of > course I do not like Microsofts monopolistic business > strategies and of course smashing icons, burning > straw-puppets, crosses or flags is not as bad as killing > real persons, but still I do not really like the idea. > > I think it would not be a great loss to take this game out > of gnome-fifth-toe. > > > Uli. > > > ************************************ > * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * > * Germany * > * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * > ************************************ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Fishbowl, n.: A glass-enclosed isolation cell where newly promoted managers are kept for observation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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