<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Leo Mauler <<a href="mailto:webgiant@yahoo.com">webgiant@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">--- feba thatl <<a href="mailto:febaen@gmail.com">febaen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Would someone please care to explain to me why the<br>
> hell people are talking about the nature of reality<br>
> on a LUG mailing list?<br>
><br>
> Did someone bring up quantum computers and not tell<br>
> me?<br>
<br>
</div>Oddly enough the Microsoft vs. Linux competition bears<br>
a distinct resemblance to the Catholic vs. Lutheran<br>
conflicts: in 1991 Linus Torvalds "nailed" the 95+<br>
lines of source code to his new kernel up on a<br>
newsgroup, and ever since then the Office of the<br>
Microsoft Inquisition has been torturing people with<br>
strange and inventive EULAs to get them to reformat<br>
their Linux installations, recently even taking a page<br>
out of the Scientology dogma by making distributors<br>
sign what are essentially "billion year contracts" to<br>
only distribute Microsoft products.<br>
<br>
Which is the last I'm going to say on the nature of<br>
Reality as it resembles the Linux operating system</blockquote><div><br>Recently, a project document from a nameless VAR contract broker asked me to sign off on this similar clause:<br><br>"You agree that if the site manager does not sign your paperwork that you will be responsible for all callbacks related to your work on that site for the next 10,000 years."<br>
<br>I found that vastly amusing and arguably disposable of by the "void term/s or concept/s" principle in most contract law. Which in english was explained to mean "Even if there is a clause in the contract forbidding you from thinking of radishes on company time it does not void the rest of the contract as that clause is itself void due to absurdity"<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br>816.729.3645