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Okay, so I know some jive-turkeys have been talking some serious smack about Perl, and you may even be one of them (if so, you’re a jive-turkey). Here I will attempt to show you how Perl could meet your needs in testing ANY application, in ANY language, in ANY environment, regardless whether or not [...]

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Wow, so tomorrow the movers will load the truck, and we’ll be moving down to Champaign from Chicago. What a bitter-sweet move…
There are a few things I’m going to miss about Chicago. One of those things is the fantastic church that I’ve been a part of for years. Another is the community [...]

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Okay, so this is going to be a short tirade. Sun Microsystems, here’s a question… if you’re so interested in releasing free and “open source” software, then why the heck do you require registration to access it? I understand asking for address information and checking for automated bots on the disc request form, [...]

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Wow, it’s not very often that you see FSF really try to make a business case like they did yesterday. Man was I really impressed with the case laid out, and I really think it will help.
The purpose of this appeal it seems is to persuade hardware vendors to serve our Free Software community [...]

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So I just read an article about how Steve Ballmer and Microsoft are blaming lacking Vista sales on people who are sharing and selling copies they’ve made. As someone who’s seen Vista in action, I think it may have more to do with Vista being a poor product, and the licensing of Vista being [...]

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So those of you who know me know that I recently considered an offer from a little company named Riverbed Technologies. Shortly after informing my current employer of the offer they’d made, they actually helped me meet my goals without the hassle of switching jobs. You see, my only reason for [...]

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I don’t know about you all, but I’m starting to get really excited and concerned all at the same time about all of this Sun going for Free Software talk. I’m excited because it would be the first time a major corporation moved its flagship products into Free Software and still managed to make [...]

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Wow. So GNU/Linux is just another product to some people. I find that concerning. Torvalds didn’t write it to be a product, Stallman didn’t write the compiler to be a product, and I don’t think the KDE or GNOME folks did it for that reason either. I know I certainly don’t [...]

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Normally I would be thrilled about these weather conditions, but today I’ve gotta drive downstate. This is no good. I’m looking out my window now, and there’s still snow coming down. There was a healthy break, and the radar looks like it’ll break again shortly, but man, I’m hoping that the interstates [...]

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Okay, so if you like Stallman, and you like… foreign languages… this is the post for you. YouTube and manchicken proudly present, beaucoup de Stallman en les langues etrages!
(no, I don’t speak french, but like many arrogant people I pretend like I do; if you’d like to translate in the comments, please feel free)

Richard [...]

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