Sorry for the movie analogies, but these images keep popping to mind. The latest is Larry Ellison as Golum, grasping his “Java” patents and declaring, “My Precious.
— Groklaw
(Source: groklaw.net)
Wiedemann-Franz Law
- Person #1: A violation of one of the oldest empirical laws of physics - Wiedemann-Franz Law - has been observed by scientists at the University of Bristol.
- Person #2: These guys have spent years trying to break the law, and now they've done it. Why aren't they in jail?
WTF? New Spider-Man movie? I mean new as in a reboot of the series.
Anybody who tells me I can’t use a program because it’s not open source, go suck on rms. I’m not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that’s _my_ choice, dammit.
— Linus Torvalds



