random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  The important thing to realize is that free software people aren't any closer to saints than the folks in the proprietary software companies. They're just as given to emotion, greed, and the lust for power. It's just that the free software rules tend to restrain their worst instincts and prevent them from acting upon them.

tagged: anarchism, open source
  —Peter Wayner, from Free for All: How Linxus and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans; excerpted at http://www.wayner.org/ books/ffa/ pullquotes.html.

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Requiem for habeas corpus

Monday, October 30th, 2006 4:34 pm

Sometimes one despairs and relies on others to speak truth to power. Many have done so with respect to with respect to the “Military Commissions Act of 2006″, but Kent Keith Olbermann‘s was particularly eloquent.

update: Ahem. Apparently that’s Keith Olbermann, and Kent Brockman. Another sign of aging, because I would never ordinarily confuse the grey/blonde Simpson’s reporter with the grey/blonde MSNBC reporter.

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