OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic

[Thermodyne]

in the darkness bind them

They send me about 10 CD's a month, can I keep using them till I need glasses?

Originally posted by Wardad:
Of course, we have to have a Lord of the Rings reference:


Bill Gates and the CD of Power

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. To my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on.

I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said "Take a close look at it."

To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth.

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C20 4F6E65204F5320746F
2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272 696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062 696E64207468656D

"I cannot read the fiery letters," I said. "No," he said, "but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says"

"One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

huh?

[geoschmo]

This is great. Would the Hobbits be penguins then? We could run with this one.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yep. and Gandolph would be the bearer of the open-source license.

[Loser]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
yep. and Gandolph would be the bearer of the open-source license.

Stallman?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

while he may be right on some, most or even all accounts, he is also biased.

no, i didn't read the whole site. i didn't have to.

[ February 09, 2004, 23:10: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Loser]

I was fortunate enough to see him speak at a Linux convention under just the right circumstances.

IGN (I think) was giving the Free Software Foundation an award that came with some amount of money. They called it the Linus Torvald Award for Such-And-Such. Stallman got up there and started going off. The most memorable line was "This is like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet."

The poor 'spokes model' type up on stage holding the gigantic check got to looking a little worried, behind her carefully crafted pLastic smile, of course. After a little while, she started to lower the check. But then Stallman would sound like he was wrapping up, and she'd pull it back up. But they he wouldn't stop, and the check would slowly start lowering again.

I think I have the whole thing on tape somewhere. I'll have to dig it up and watch it again.

I think it was LinuxWorld '99 (which would explain IGN).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

true, but we have him as gandolph, next thing you know, bush is sauron, blair is saramon and the whole thing is political.

when i entered his site, the major impression was his political views, not his monetary or anti-corporate views.