05.18.08

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Quick Mention: “Make Your Distro Free of Miguel de Icaza’s Junk Code”

Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Patents at 9:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Okay, this new post with the headline “Make Your Distro Free of Miguel de Icaza’s junk code” was just too difficult to ignore. It showed up in Free Software Daily just a few moments ago.

Go ahead and ‘un-Novellise’ your distro. It might even spare the lives of a few kittens. ;-) █

“At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it immediately.”

–Miguel de Icaza

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2 Comments

  1. Woods said,

    May 18, 2008 at 10:23 am

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    The last part is especially hilarious :-)

  2. Ball_Mer said,

    May 18, 2008 at 10:26 am

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    sudo vi /etc/hosts.deny

    and add this line:

    ALL : 130.57.21.14

    LOL !!

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