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The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".


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Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.



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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.



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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.



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Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.



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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.



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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.



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Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.



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By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.



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