Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".