[Gslug-general] my new signature -- what do you think

[RijilV]

2009/6/9 Joe moo <starquestnerd at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for your reply! I still the sig is good propaganda for M$
> newbies... I will shorten it though sorry :(
>


So, I'm not entirely sure where you get these anologies, but you
really should consult a dictonary or something.


> --
> "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and
> lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~
> President Abraham Lincoln

That right there is a perfect length for a sig.  Though a bit too flag
sucking for me.

>
> * Closed source is where democracy turns to socialism

"Socialism refers to any one of various economic theories of economic
organization advocating state or cooperative ownership and
administration of the means of production and distribution of goods,
and a society characterized by equal opportunities/means for all
individuals with a more egalitarian method of compensation based on
the full product of the laborer."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

If anything closed source is the antithesis of socialism in the relm
of software...


>
> * DRM is where socialism turns to communism
>

You make both socialsm and communism sound so bad

> * Trusted computing is where communism turns into an corporate run world

Or a magical place that will never exist where computer security
people can actually sleep.  Given that no one can actually trust their
hardware right now (uhg please don't make me google search that for
you) or really even their kernel (plenty of ways to patch a live
kernel), it would actually be a nice thing to have around, would give
you a safe place you could start securing a system or do an audit
from.  As we have things now, all anyone does is just enough running
around as to confuse anyone trying to slip by them...

Also, I'd make an arguement over beers about how we already live in a
corporate run world, and we don't have trusted computing...

>
> * But Microsoft is where all that turns down into an imperial society.
>

Again, definitions.  I know "imperial society" sounds cool.... but well:

 http://www.istd.org/

is all I have to say about that.

> Linux will save the world!

I was kinda rooting for people saving the world, but I for one welcome
our new Linux world saving overlords.

.r'

[insert really long ASCII art of boba fett]