[ale] OT: M$ vs. Linux netbooks

[Jim Kinney]

2009/3/4 Jon Reagan <jreagan1990 at gmail.com>:
> What the heck does war crimes have to do with this conversation?  LOL
>
> Aaaanyways... what's this about Obama wanting to use OSS to help the
> economy/budget issues?

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/14/1723225
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7841486.stm

Of course the second is Mcnealy blathering about opensource Java, but
still, opensource is mentioned as a way to get things done more
effectively.
>
> Jon
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> <yawn>
>> >>
>> >> Move on already. ;-)
>> >
>> >
>> > That's the attitude that allows them and others to get away with it and
>> > provide
>> > no incentive to prevent future, and in all probability much worse,
>> > offenses.
>> >
>>
>> There's a reason that treason and war crimes have no statute of
>> limitations. It keeps the atrocities alive in the minds of those with
>> an interest for pursuing the wicked to bring them to stand trial for
>> their transgressions.
>>
>> As despicably corrupt as American politicians are viewed, even those
>> that can't keep their zipper up and stop lying about it, making
>> decisions that produce a profit for the decision maker while
>> endangering the peace and safety of Americans is viewed as treason.
>> Choosing to engage in a war that is anticipated to be near genocidal
>> in scope is grounds for being accused of war crimes.
>>
>> Every American patriot should be appalled at any elected official or
>> otherwise representative of this country who would act in such a
>> reprehensible manner as to draw allegations of wrong doing with the
>> labels "treason" and "war crimes". Regardless of ones political party
>> affiliations, the world view of America being led, managed, run, or
>> supporting of individuals or groups accused of "war crimes" is a
>> reputation that will take generations to resolve.
>>
>> While none of this involves the use of Linux in any form, the prior
>> administration and it's president mandated the use of Microsoft
>> Exchange and subsequently "lost" emails. Had they used a rationally
>> designed system, such a Linux based system, the emails may not have
>> been lost and thus could have been recovered in time to prevent
>> further erosion of public trust, both domestically and abroad,
>>
>> Our new head honcho seems to like open source as a solution to
>> budgetary woes. That is a clear improvement in policy that is directly
>> related to the community aspect of ALE.
>>
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