Bonum Certa Men Certa

Lock-in of Lock-down

"Another suggestion In this mail was that we can’t make our own unilateral extensions to HTML I was going to say this was wrong and correct this also."

--Bill Gates [PDF]



Summary: A short poem for our pandemic times

TWO make a couple Which social distancing forbids Bill Gates makes a fortune From vaccine he says everyone needs



Pick up your Skype and your Teams Said the man in the sweater Proprietary software is "social" Trust me, it'll make your life a lot better

Pandemic is good, said the man in the sweater Stay inside, stay online, give me all your data Use my services and keyloggers You're doing a public service, testing it like it's a beta!

Microsoft loves Linux, said the man in the sweater But surely he knew better It's Windows he really loves after all Only a conspiracy theorist would become his hater

COVID-19 is a lot worse than Windows in your hospital So said a devil from hell Sure, you might die there eventually Like Mr. Esptein in his cell

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