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• Brief History Of Linux (#16) Closed source, opened wallets In 1976 Bill Gates wrote the famous letter to Altair hobbyists accusing them of "stealing software" and "preventing good software from being written".
  We must assume Bill's statement was true, because no good software was being written at Micro-soft....
• bring X to its knees v. [common] To present a machine, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or pathological that it grinds to a halt.
  To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running vi -- or four running EMACS....
• bring X to its knees: v. To present a machine, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or {pathological} that it grinds to a halt.
  To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running {vi} -- or four running {EMACS}....
• Brief History Of Linux (#18) The rise and rise of the Microsoft Empire The DOS and Windows releases kept coming, and much to everyone's surprise, Microsoft became more and more successful.
  This brought much frustration to computer experts who kept predicting the demise of Microsoft and the rise of Macintosh, Unix, and OS/2....
• Commenting in Slashdot after Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to use open-source software in the California governme
  > This is obviously because Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are girly-men....
• crippleware: n. 1. Software that has some important functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version.
  2. [Cambridge] {Guiltware} that exhorts you to donate to some charity (compare {careware}, {nagware})....
• crippleware n. 1. [common] Software that has some important functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version.
  2. [Cambridge] Variety of guiltware that exhorts you to donate to some charity (compare careware, nagware)....
• Affordable Virtual Beowulf Cluster Every nerd drools over Beowulf clusters, but very few have even seen one, much less own one.
  Until now, that is. Eric Gylgen, the open source hacker famous for EviL (the dancing ASCII paperclip add-on to vi), is working on a program that will emulate Beowulf clusters on a standard desktop PC....
• Brief History Of Linux (#11) Birth of Gates and the Anti-Gates October 28, 1955 saw the birth of William H.
  Gates, who would rise above his humble beginnings as the son of Seattle's most powerful millionaire lawyer and become the World's Richest Man(tm)....