Linux & Vonnegut

Sounds like I'm making this up, but...

BBC News | 2/1/04
Linux steps into the limelight

Major global computer companies are now embracing Linux. IBM, for
one, is currently running a series of television and online ads
proclaiming that the future is open, as in open source computing.

They have even enlisted author Kurt Vonnegut to help promote the
open source ideal of sharing your computer code with others.

Balance of story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3436289.stm

--
obscura.TakeThisOut@null.net ¤ "The Internet has already become for a fortunate
few ('spiritual scuba divers', one is tempted to call them) a
limitless ocean without bottom or shores. In whose depths one can
breathe effortlessly -- in and out, in and out. It is the habitat
of the newest creatures to evolve in our part of the Milky Way -- as
enchanting and nobly bizarre as any giant manta or moray eel, say.
They are recorded thoughts and feelings about what it is like to be
a living thing." -- Kurt Vonnegut, 9/99

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:17:14 -0500, DaveL wrote:

 > Sounds like I'm making this up, but...
 >
 > BBC News | 2/1/04
 > Linux steps into the limelight
 >
 > Major global computer companies are now embracing Linux. IBM, for
 > one, is currently running a series of television and online ads
 > proclaiming that the future is open, as in open source computing.
 >
 > They have even enlisted author Kurt Vonnegut to help promote the
 > open source ideal of sharing your computer code with others.
 >
 > Balance of story at:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3436289.stm</font" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3436289.stm</font</a>>

There's a word for the feeling I experienced when I read this, but it
escapes me: you know, when two or more of your apparently disparate
passions converge? I've been a Linux user/evangelist for a few years and a
Vonnegut admirer for much longer. Of course, the two are completely
unrelated (especially in light of KV's feelings about computers and the
internet), so it's weird--and wonderful--that the two have come together
in some way. Makes my day!

Jack<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->