We The Free

AKA: Sharing Is Caring.

I’m writing this partly because I’d like to help people shift gear, and partly because many of my friends read interesting things online every day and I’m a nosy bastard and don’t have enough crap to read.

In ancient times, back when stone was being beaten into simple tools and wheels were being invented, people read their news on large sheets of pulp. The papers would even be delivered to your house so that you didn’t have to venture farther past your over-grown, under-loved garden, and you could find out how the world devolved today before you even had pants on.

Fast forward to the end of the 20th century, and news was being displayed as pixels on computer screens. The problem with this was that you had to visit various different sites. Bookmarking them all, and visiting, waiting for their epileptic-fit-inducing banner ads to display before you could even get a list of the available articles. So some days you’d forget, and some days you’d spend in bed recovering from yesterday’s seizures.
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Several years too late as far as I’m concerned. Ars Technica has the story that covers McBride’s dismissal.

A nice quote from the article:

“Even after SCO’s deception was exposed and the company effectively lost its case, Darl McBride continued to insist that the company has evidence of System V code in Linux. No such evidence has been presented and McBride’s argument directly contradicts testimony given by other SCO executives. McBride’s stubborn detachment from reality has made him a subject of ridicule in the Linux community.“

In the wake of the disastrous attempt at litigation against everyone and their dog, SCO expect to “restructure” and continue to grow their UNIX business as if nothing had ever happened, but I think that irreparable damage has been done to them and their brand by McBride.

RIAA sends a crusader to Wellington with the aim of encouraging the government to reinstate s92a as it was originally planned in its original undemocratic glory.

He has also brought with him almost 20,000 comic books that will be given to school children. The latter strikes me as a better approach, even though it will no doubt be full of fear-mongering. But education seems to me as being the right alternative to bad law.