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Clubbing Baby Linux Penguins

“Some things can’t be spun.

“If you’re clubbing baby seals into a bloody pulp, for example,
I can’t hear your justifications. You can talk about needing to
make a living and how this is how it’s always been done, but all
I’m thinking is, there is nothing you can say that will make me
like you for this. Or ever agree that it is acceptable. I want you
to find a better way, something that doesn’t involve cruelty to
adorable little creatures that never harmed a flea. I hear them
crying.

“Similarly, when Microsoft joined the SCO ‘you must pay me
forever for my precious IP’ club, made up of companies that don’t
know enough not to club baby Linux penguins, the world said,
Ewww…”

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