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Two atoms are at a bar having a drink. Suddenly one blurts out "I lost an electron!" The other replies "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm postive."
"A Contrarian View of Open Source". Bruce Sterling stirring the pot at the O'Reilly Open Source convention. Long, but really worth it if you can make it through to the end.
Free Love as a policy is sort of okay. I mean, people will kinda overlook it when you're young... Because they expect you to die, of VD or AIDS or something! But the Linux Girl just laughs at viruses. "HA HA HA! Only debutantes from Redmond get viruses!"
And then she starts having children. Any guy's children. She'll have your child, as long as you're not particular about giving it your name. She's got a whole brood of kids, like Sendmail, and Postfix, and Apache, and Perl. And some of 'em die young, and some are mentally retarded. But the hippie earth mother is just hitting her stride here. She's a one-woman demographic boom! She's having litters of kids, kids by the dozens.
Cops are coming around, and stuff... "Is this your trailer park, ma'am?"
"Not really, officer!"
"Could we see some ID, please?"
"I never bother much with any official papers!"
"Are you from around here, ma'am? You don't look very American."
"Actually, I'm Finnish, officer! Look at this old birth certificate!"