Does the world really need OLPC?

'tis a passable parody, but one wonders why Gnu/Linux? Is CP/M really dead?

Richard

>'tis a passable parody

I suppose, if religious bigotry is parody.

Quoting:I suppose, if religious bigotry is parody.

Yes. Remember: One must never make fun of another person's beliefs. That's bigotry. Unless of course that other person believes something you think is wrong. Then it's just savvy commentary,

>One must never make fun of another person's beliefs.

Sorry, I don't agree with that at all. That's making fun (though it can be bigotry).

This article doesn't make fun of any religious beliefs. it simply uses "Christian" as a code word. That smells like bigotry to me.

I'll try to remember that the next time I hear "liberal" used as a code word.

...or "Microsoft".

Ooh, yes. Good catch.

Perhaps a new database is in order. One that identifies these "code words". That way we can all easily recognize when a bigot posts.

Doubleplus good idea!

Sigh. The thought police are out in droves today.

I love how the author explains that Minix was invented by the SCO Group. Did anyone else catch that?

As for the thought police, there is but one that I bother trying to please with my thoughts. Sorry, it ain't nobody 'round these here parts. ;-)

>Minix was invented by the SCO Group

Seriously. After all, everybody know that Minix was invented by Ralston Purina, along with wheat chex and rice chex.

> As for the thought police, there is but one that I bother trying to please with my thoughts. Sorry, it ain't nobody 'round these here parts. ;-)

Consider a bill to LXer for my psychiatric counseling over this unwarranted rejection to be in the mail. :)

A little off-topic, but related to the SCO comment. From Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage:

"But someone from SCO claimed that they own C++"; is that not so? It's complete rubbish. I saw that interview. The SCO guy clearly had no clue what C++ was, referring to it as "the C++ languages". At most, SCO may own a 15-year old and seriously outdated version of Cfront - my original C++ compiler. I was careful not to patent or trademark anything to do with C++. That's one reason we write plain "C++" and not "C++(tm)". The C++ standard is unencumbered of patents - the committee carefully checked that also.

Quoting:Sigh. The thought police are out in droves today.

I couldn't agree more.

@SFN,

Did I authorise you to think that agreement?

I hereby recognize "authorise" as a code word.

Please add it to the database.