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Has a neighbor ever helped you paint a fence?
maybe a friend helped you wash your car? It's more like that.

You see, junior - all software was written to cure some pain in the ass; some cures are klugey while others have an elegant simplicity. But I can't think of one Open Source project that has:

*Stolen $74 billion in pensions and payrolls; thanks Enron, or
*Assist them in the crime; thanks Arthur Anderson, or
*Simply lose $3.85 billion in a sad and confusing accounting snafu; thanks WorldCom, or
*Flat-out steal $150 million from the company that feeds them; thanks Tyco or, lest we forget...
*Goldman Sachs for promoting credit default swaps into legislation, then laughing as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG get kicked down the stairs for dabbling in it.

But to this day, I can't think of even one piece of open sourced software designed to wreck capitalism unless... you were talking about Windows Viruses? But we really don't need those either...

We already have something designed to efficiently wear-down capitalism - greedy CEO's.

Dude, I know you were kidding when you said that but you tee'd it up so nicely I had to swing at it.
Posted by todd_dsm
Updated - 26th Jan