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:The Triangle: Linux's Future Lies In Its Community's Hands
The Triangle: Linux's Future Lies In Its Community's Hands
Oct 12, 2004, 00 :30 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (3334 reads)

(Other stories by Kevin Lynch)

"Picture a future devoid of all happiness and freedom. The poor are scrounging for pennies and pieces of bread to survive on, while the rich are lounging in front of lavish fireplaces, smoking on expensive humidors, grinning. What self respecting businessman wouldn't be proud of himself for surviving the few years of turmoil during early and mid oughts? After all, they were the ones who survived those troubled times by sticking with the corporations and fighting off the open source epidemic. Now those poor Linux-loving hippies are starving to death, wishing they had sided with the big Scrooge, Bill Gates..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
At least the creative writing portion of ...   Someone yearns for freshman english.   
Brandioch Conner
Oct 12, 2004, 01:49:12
 
Without any clear-cut plan, Linux and th ...   Free software community CANNOT collapse   
Danijel Orsolic
Oct 12, 2004, 03:00:21
 
If the author belonged to the class of s ...   To which class does the author belong?   
Mario Miyojim
Oct 12, 2004, 04:20:00
 
Well Brandioch debunked some bad writing ...   What? I don't get a humidor?   
Eric Laffoon
Oct 12, 2004, 04:54:02
 
He seems to be stuck in 1997, back when  ...   Who is this guy?   
Kevin
Oct 12, 2004, 05:35:38
 
You cannot smoke "expensive humidors"A h ...   cannot smoke a humidor   
George George
Oct 12, 2004, 14:15:39
 
College kids are so cute when they think ...   Word   
Marc Richter
Oct 12, 2004, 18:57:05
 
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