Kosher for Passover software

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 11:15:59 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally
> > associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc. so this
> > is what
> > people are implying by writing "M$" instead of "MS". By associating
> > the "$"
> > sign with Microsoft, one implies that either Microsoft is negatively
> > greedy
> > (which may be the case, but all good companies, including the open
> > source
> > ones, want to have profits too, and there's nothing wrong with
> > that), or that
> > the "$" sign is negative just like Microsoft is perceived to be (and
> > are to a
> > large extent).
> 
> Actually the Dollar sign, was originally written with 2 vertical
> lines. It was the monogram of "US" (United States).
> 

I know it was written with two vertical lines. Regarding the Monogram for 
United States, that is what Ayn Rand mentions in Atlas Shrugged, but the 
Wikipedia claims it may not be the case, and that it may be derived from PS  
instead or somewhere else:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

So the origins are not clear.

> As for writing an operating system, you might as well give up it. It's
> already done. You can (actually have to) buy Solaris from Larry
> Ellison, a Jew.

I didn't know Larry Ellison was Jewish, but it seems to indeed be the case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

Regardless of that, buying an operating system from a company headed by a 
Jewish businessman is not enough, as the operating system has still been coded 
by many goy and non-observant-Jewish programmers and it must be Jewish and 
kosher from bottom-to-top (or in Hebrew: "mehamasad ve'ad hattfachoth."). 
Everyone who claims otherwise is saying heresy and as a God-fearing Jew I 
don't want to hear any of it. Shame on you, Geoffrey![RMS]

{{{
[RMS] - by the same logic that using a 100% GNU ( http://www.gnu.org/ ) would 
be kosher because Richard M. Stallman is of Jewish descent, but as we know the 
GNU operating system has employed many goyim and Jews-of-bad-culture to write 
its code.
}}}

> This eliminates the need to toivel the disks, even if they contain
> "hot" fixes. And since it must be bought (open solaris is on its way
> out, and there are no more free licenses for solaris), the talmudic
> requirment to pay a fair price for something is fulfilled.
> 

Yes, I've heard about it now. I hoped that Oracle would make the OpenSolaris 
licence GPL-compatible (Which would allow cross-polination between 
OpenSolaris, and GNU/Linux and other GPLed-licensed software) after they 
bought Sun, but turns out they took a step towards anti-FOSS. One can still 
fork the latest version of OpenSolaris (as it is FOSS), but it will require a 
tremendous effort to maintain it without Oracle/Sun's help. Maybe (hopefully 
as far as we are concerned) Oracle will change its Solaris policy in the 
future.

The FOSS community got something good out of Nokia buying Qt (Qt being LGPLed) 
and out of AMD merging with ATI (ATI releasing specifications and better Linux 
FOSS drivers), but I guess not all mergers are beneficial for us. For Oracle's 
defence, one should note that they kept Berkeley DB and InnoDB as FOSS (though 
both are GPL-like), have contributed code to the Linux kernel and other 
projects and are planning to keep MySQL as GPLed (and Sun Java too, AFAIK).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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