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The ghost in the machine 2

August 14, 2008 - 2:17 pm - by Richard Fernandez
mark_b
2008-08-14 23:24:44

DrJ:

During the dotcom boom I was buying Utility Stocks and Canadian Natural Gas.

I was also busting my butt at a hot sweaty job.

My friends were all “new economy, blah,blah,blah”. My tipping point was when one of them quoted Warren Buffet to justify his purchase of JDSU (JDS Uniphase).

I ditched that sweaty job this spring and am spending the summer with my daughter. Opening a business this fall. Been writing business plans for years. Finally found one I liked more than my job.

I was trying to compare open and closed source to the comments on this blog. The Russians were so easy to pick out because they had no depth. And they didn’t match the coding style.

Lastly, the percentage of Unix users here appears to be much greater than the average population. Maybe even higher than Slashdot, due all of the gamers needing proprietary drivers from Microsoft.

Unix is a system that is easier to use if you use your brain. There is clearly lots of that going on here.

I will now read and shut up.