Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One 542
Several people have submitted news from SANE 2004 that a car crash involving several Free Software developers has killed one and injured two others. Richard Stallman was in the car earlier but apparently had been dropped off prior to the accident.
Re:FAA? (Score:3, Funny)
There would be much rejoicing. NEXT!
The 'Funny' modifier.... (Score:4, Funny)
Ha ha ha (Score:3, Funny)
Whew, you had me going there for a minute.
Re:RMS & comp. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FAA? (Score:2, Funny)
The free software movement is in the crosshairs. Why do you think software patents have become such an issue recently? Did SCO come up with the idea of its copyright attack on Linux on its own all of a sudden? Some investor immediately gave it the cash infusion it needed to persue the lawsuit, recall (BayStar etc.) Was it SCO, by itself, that got the De Toqueville Institute to issue an article questioning the originality of Linux? In fact a lot of "think tanks" have been piling on [unsw.edu.au] the free software movement.
Free software is a loose cannon, the normal mechanisms that keep sources of consumer products and innovation from stepping on the toes of governments and governments' interests don't work with free software.
How happy do you think the United States is that free software has given China and countries like it an operating system which is guaranteed free of any CIA / NSA backdoors?
For christs sakes, how fucking naive do you have to be, of course they are going to start killing leaders of the free software movement.
I hope RMS isn't himself so naive and starts taking precautions (for all the good that will do him if the CIA wants him dead).
Some other highly suspicious accidents:
Microbiologists http://www.rense.com/general20/mic.htm [rense.com]
Free software authors (google translation from German) http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2
Alan Gibbs, founder of TruVote (electronic voting machines) http://conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid
Re:The 'Funny' modifier.... (Score:2, Funny)
There's your utility, right in your eye!!!!111oneONE!
['course, unfunny jokes will get their own mods.]
Irony. (Score:2, Funny)