Comments on: Bill Gates’ Retirement Merely a Political Lock-in Crusade http://techrights.org/2008/02/01/lockin-method-vs-linux/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Driessen http://techrights.org/2008/02/01/lockin-method-vs-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-28022 Ken Driessen Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:01:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/01/lockin-method-vs-linux/#comment-28022 Wow: I was going to supply the gates foundation with some proprietery information with a grant application. I guess I'll just hint at the idea and if they don't like it, so what. http://home.centurytel.net/local-ideas/ I guess what I want to do would already be done if anal retentive straussian milton freedman worshiping mammon lovers who think of themselves as gods would have wanted it. If you don't play you can't win and it does not hurt to try. Well I've been hurt by capitalist sow pigs my whole life. PL&H K Wow: I was going to supply the gates foundation with some proprietery information with a grant application. I guess I’ll just hint at the idea and if they don’t like it, so what. http://home.centurytel.net/local-ideas/ I guess what I want to do would already be done if anal retentive straussian milton freedman worshiping mammon lovers who think of themselves as gods would have wanted it. If you don’t play you can’t win and it does not hurt to try. Well I’ve been hurt by capitalist sow pigs my whole life.

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]]> By: paul http://techrights.org/2008/02/01/lockin-method-vs-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-5332 paul Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:00:37 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/01/lockin-method-vs-linux/#comment-5332 I can just see Gates saying, "Oooo, look at me. I'm such a kind and selfless person. You can tell by all the money I donate to help others." Yah, right! It's bait, people. Now we need a cartoon talent. We need to do a political cartoon showing Gates with a fishing pole, a string dangling down at the end, and a $2.5B (or whatever the amount was) check to help education. Just below the check is a Vista box. And the Vista box is inside a cage, again with the check dangling just above it. Of course, Bill can be shown to be saying, "I'm retiring" while he stands next to the cage holding the fishing pole. To the right of him, we have Tux and/or Shuttleworth, or Negroponte standing by a step that leads up to an open doorway that looks out to a nice bright sunrise. There's also a good analogy here for the red pill, blue pill a la Matrix. I can just see Gates saying, “Oooo, look at me. I’m such a kind and selfless person. You can tell by all the money I donate to help others.”

Yah, right! It’s bait, people.

Now we need a cartoon talent. We need to do a political cartoon showing Gates with a fishing pole, a string dangling down at the end, and a $2.5B (or whatever the amount was) check to help education. Just below the check is a Vista box. And the Vista box is inside a cage, again with the check dangling just above it. Of course, Bill can be shown to be saying, “I’m retiring” while he stands next to the cage holding the fishing pole.

To the right of him, we have Tux and/or Shuttleworth, or Negroponte standing by a step that leads up to an open doorway that looks out to a nice bright sunrise.

There’s also a good analogy here for the red pill, blue pill a la Matrix.

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