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• If the vendors started doing everything right, we would be out of a job.
  Let's hear it for OSI and X! With those babies in the wings, we can count on being employed until we drop, or get smart and switch to gardening, paper folding, or something....
• Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now.
  Because of this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid....
• Clerk: Now before we give you health insurance, I have to ask you a few questions.
  Homer: Questions! Questions! My whole scheme down the -- [realizes] I mean ask away....
• Barlow: So, my friends, let's just junk those Dumbocrats and their bleeding-heart smellfare program.
  Lisa: Dad, I had to listen to this jerk all morning....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• Clippit Charged With Attempted Murder Microsoft's Dancing Paper Clip turned violent last week and nearly killed a university student testing a new Windows-based human-computer interface.
  The victim is expected to make a full recovery, although psychiatrists warn that the incident may scar him emotionally for life....
• X windows: We will dump no core before its time. One good crash deserves another.
  A bad idea whose time has come. And gone. We make excuses....
• Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.
  -- E. Dijkstra...
• As we all know, a high school drop-out has very poor job prospects.
  The best he can hope for is to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. -- Jim Tubma...