from the libertarian newspaper

[Don Ellis]

I like it!

I'm going to pass this around here in St. Louis...

--Don Ellis


On Jan 19, 2007, at 1:47 AM, David Nicol wrote:

> 23) Operating systems: Lessons for Libertarians 1.0
> Strike the Root
> by Carlton Hobbs
>
> "A typical example of socialist distribution vs. market  
> distribution is any
> market where a free society provides many choices but a socialist  
> state
> makes a singular decision for everyone. Not only does Linux not  
> match this
> model of socialist centralization, but Microsoft does. Here is the  
> key, by
> eliminating heavy dependency on proprietary software, you eliminate  
> one
> centralization of abusable power. Linux ties its user into its  
> knowledge
> base, but by its license agreement, that ties users into no one in
> particular, as good ideas can be taken and forked or merged into other
> projects. It leaves the source code open so anyone who desires can  
> become
> an expert." (01/17/07)
>
> http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/hobbs/hobbs1.html
>
> -- 
> Q: How do I decode unix seconds-since-the-epoch timestamps?
> A: xterm -T TIMESTAMP_TRANSLATOR -e perl -ple'$_= ~~localtime$_' &
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