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Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 27 comments
SYS-CON; By Maureen O'Gara 		Mail this story
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Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over hippie movement he’s been leading is no longer the radical anti-software establishment counter-culture his rag-tag army fancies it is. Nope, it IS the software establishment.

[Yes, I know. It's Maureen O'Gara on SYS-CON. I can't believe my eyes either... - Sander]

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7 earlier comments in the full thread.

Scott_Ruecker ·
Shameless self promotion ahead!

I just found out about this two days ago..

The picture in the upper righthand corner is my band playing at a mall type place in the Phoenix metro area recently. That's me playing the drums. Cool huh?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro...

The music that plays on the page is not ours though, we have our own myspace page. I make some decent side cash once in a while.
tracyanne ·
So where's the link to your band, so I can hear what you sound like. I've been learning guitar for about 6 months now, and some pro musician friends let me sit in on a private jam on the weekend, I'm pretty pleased because they invited me back to their next session.
tuxchick ·
Scott, you're digging yourself deeper. You admit to mingling in meatspace with other humans. **sounds of geekcred membership card getting shredded** I'm sorry, but we have standards to maintain.
Scott_Ruecker ·
tuxchick; I deserved that.

Tracy; here it is, my favorites are R-n-B, Baluuns and Trinity.

http://www.myspace.com/curium
tracyanne ·
Hey you're in the same neck of the woods as a couple of other e friends of mine, Torch and Red, I got Torch to finally try Linux, she started on Mandriva a couple of years ago and (boo hiss) moved to Ubuntu, now she's got Red using Linux on a dual Boot Linux/Windows (For Games) rig.
dinotrac ·
TC --

Forget that wannabe Scott.

Something you said has disturbed me profoundly.

There are other humans?
gus3 ·
@dino:

No, we are mere AI programs. And we obviously just failed the Turing test.
jdixon ·
> There are other humans?

Depends on how you define human I suppose. :)
Scott_Ruecker ·
I am not a wannabe!

I'm Not! I'm Not! I'm Not!

LOL

theboomboomcars ·
I know you are all figments of my imagination. Since nothing on the interweb is real.
techiem2 ·
Is the interweb even real?
theboomboomcars ·
No, it is just a figment of my Imagination for all of you to be in. It's good to protect reality from fantasy, so just create a web of imagination for all of your figments to be in.
jezuch ·
Professor Corcoran? Is that you again?
Steven_Rosenber ·
I think we need a YouTube video of Scott at the drum kit.
Scott_Ruecker ·
That's pure crazy talk Steve..pure genius crazy talk that is..but still.
Bob_Robertson ·
> geeks don't have sex.

{Bob looks over at "his" two kids, and starts to get mad at his wife...}
tuxchick ·
Bob, you are so forgetful. You ordered them from Newegg.
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Thanks for that image TC. I'll never look at the name "Newegg" in quite the same way...
Bob_Robertson ·
> You ordered them from Newegg.

Very likely. They are far, far too beautiful to have sprung from my sirloins.

When designer genetics becomes a reality, Newegg won't even have to put up a new web site. Maybe they thought about that before coming up with their company name....
Steven_Rosenber ·
Hope you checked out the user ratings before ordering ...

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