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jebba44 karma

we have a strong open source community behind us

You will lose half of it the day you release your first closed binary.

jebba36 karma

Sigh. Red Hat, Inc. does all their software free/open and they have a $10 billion market cap. Proprietary = fail. Don't go the way of Maemo/Meego/etc.

jebba11 karma

AFAICT, he was in the Peace Corps in the 1960s. During that time, Ethiopia and Eritrea were not two countries. Ethiopia was run by Emperor Haile Selassie (who the rastas worship).

If you want to know what the court of Selassie was like at the time, you can do no better than the first hand accounts captured by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Poland's "Journalist of the century" for the 1900s) in his book, The Emperor.

Selassie was overthrown by "communists" who were supported by the USSR until their system collapsed. Throughout the tyranny of the Mengistu regime, the Tigray and Eritreans battled together against Mengistu. Once they finally gained power by violent overthrow, they decided to have an amicable split between Ethiopia and Eritrea. At this point they became two countries. Shortly after that division, they went to war in 1998. I was there during this period near the border (in Mekele) and it seemed surprisingly calm then!

TLDR: smash the state.

jebba4 karma

What's it like to live in a democracy?

jebba3 karma

And when he's not busy fighting oppression from the FBI, he's fighting invalid actions from the secret service. :)

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/statement-nicholas-merrill-president-calyx-internet-access-corp-regarding-secret-service