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   Message 106,586 of 107,822   
   rbowman to Joel   
   Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Sour   
   10 Oct 24 21:58:10   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:21:41 -0400, Joel wrote:   
      
   > rbowman  wrote:   
   >>On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:47 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The survival of society cannot be left to bean-counters so anything   
   >>> that is essential infrastructure should be cost + $1 if not free   
   >>> (state run in other words).   
   >>   
   >>That would presume a much more effective state; the current ones   
   >>couldn't run a church picnic. Where they probably could rise to   
   >>effectiveness is in censoring anything that doesn't have the state's   
   >>seal of approval.   
   >>   
   >>I won't even go into how the state provides 'free' gibs by picking the   
   >>pockets of its citizens at implied gunpoint.   
   >   
   >   
   > Give Rush Limbaugh the presidential medal of freedom!!!   
      
   Have to dig him up first... My ex used to listen to his, show which is a   
   bit odd for a college educated woman living in NYC, but I was never   
   impressed. He did have good taste in his opening music though; it must   
   have chafed his ass the Chrissie Hynde donated the royalties from his use   
   to PETA.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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