[ale] OT: M$ vs. Linux netbooks

[Jon Reagan]

What the heck does war crimes have to do with this conversation?  LOL

Aaaanyways... what's this about Obama wanting to use OSS to help the
economy/budget issues?

Jon

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>
> >> <yawn>
> >>
> >> Move on already. ;-)
> >
> >
> > That's the attitude that allows them and others to get away with it and
> provide
> > no incentive to prevent future, and in all probability much worse,
> offenses.
> >
>
> There's a reason that treason and war crimes have no statute of
> limitations. It keeps the atrocities alive in the minds of those with
> an interest for pursuing the wicked to bring them to stand trial for
> their transgressions.
>
> As despicably corrupt as American politicians are viewed, even those
> that can't keep their zipper up and stop lying about it, making
> decisions that produce a profit for the decision maker while
> endangering the peace and safety of Americans is viewed as treason.
> Choosing to engage in a war that is anticipated to be near genocidal
> in scope is grounds for being accused of war crimes.
>
> Every American patriot should be appalled at any elected official or
> otherwise representative of this country who would act in such a
> reprehensible manner as to draw allegations of wrong doing with the
> labels "treason" and "war crimes". Regardless of ones political party
> affiliations, the world view of America being led, managed, run, or
> supporting of individuals or groups accused of "war crimes" is a
> reputation that will take generations to resolve.
>
> While none of this involves the use of Linux in any form, the prior
> administration and it's president mandated the use of Microsoft
> Exchange and subsequently "lost" emails. Had they used a rationally
> designed system, such a Linux based system, the emails may not have
> been lost and thus could have been recovered in time to prevent
> further erosion of public trust, both domestically and abroad,
>
> Our new head honcho seems to like open source as a solution to
> budgetary woes. That is a clear improvement in policy that is directly
> related to the community aspect of ALE.
>
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