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Like most threats to human existence, the atomic bomb is a product of American innovation... The article was humorous though. I'm sure most visitors would recognise it as satire, and I doubt it'll have any significant effect on persuading anyone to use anything. The majority of readers seem to be linux users, anyway, who are looking for a good laugh. On 5/1/06, John Palmer <johnp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is IMO a wind-up, leg-pull, hoax, etc. "Tristan" probably meant to issue it on April 1 but delayed till 20th because it might have been too obvious. "No tools for defragging a disk" forsooth. And I really miss FrontPage :-) As a blague it's quite clever, but the taste is bad, and surely this is defamatory: "It's a computer program that was initially developed in Finland as a means of circumventing valuable copyrights and patents owned by an American company called SCO Group." Not that one wants to get involved in /that/ bit of litigation. -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England e-mail: johnp@xxxxxxxxxx (plain text preferred) website: http://www.palmyra.uklinux.net/ - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
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