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Comment · 14 years ago
:-)
Comment · 14 years ago
The way people typically do this is by VCing their configurations in a "dotfiles" repository. New machine? Pull your dotfiles, and create the symlinks in your homedir.
Comment · 14 years ago
This again...
Comment · 14 years ago
What on earth are you talking about, man?
Comment · 14 years ago
That would only evaluate the original [true] key, though, right?
Comment · 14 years ago
Filled mine, too. Firefox 11.
Comment · 14 years ago
Are you really against (re)introducing woolly mammoths?! I, for one, think they would be lovely pets!
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I don't think it's theft. It definitely is extortion.
Comment · 14 years ago
Less grass. Fewer blades of grass. Boom! Grammar.
Comment · 14 years ago
Valde interesting lectu. Gratuita usum Latine. Optimum.
Comment · 14 years ago
Off-topic: tell me about it! We get it... you're a pythonista. Now quote like a normal person.
Comment · 15 years ago
The authors of proprietary software control what you do with that software.

Quite clearly Free Software as a source of income works. Sell the support for the software which you have written, software you will be most familiar with. This is the model for countless companies writing Free Software.

People are malicious (I enjoy your cynicism, BTW). The difference between proprietary software and free software is that you're free to find those malicious "features" (mind the quotes) by reading the code that is available to you under Free Software. If you can't find it (the evil - not the code), you can assume that the massive community will (eventually). This is impossible in proprietary software. You don't control the software - it controls you.

Comment · 15 years ago
Citation needed.

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