Manifesto

Ok, right here right now is my desperate plea for open source. When Microsoft Word (not excel or powerpoint or anything fancy like that) crashes on you three times in a row!!! That, that my friend, is when you plead for open source. When your entire heart is united, not in love, but hatred of the despised Microsoft. Oh Woeful irony, tearing at my soul! Oh Linus, save me! Save me from man’s greed, his ignorance, his lack of foresight! Save me from Gate’s tyrannical entrapment! Thus I am confounded! Without thee, I am nothing, with, I am in torture.

Man’s rights are here disclaimed by those who have no right of authoritative rhetoric! Oh, my government, let at least a tyranny be that elected, and not that seized by tyrants of fortune. Know that now I am against thee! Hated villain, wretched, bloated, monopoly! Here I forget all loyalties, and fly towards virtue! I cast down the mantle of servitude! I plead for what is right and natural! When all those who have obtained a knowledge of the skill to program, when this Great Host is let work, perfection cannot fail to arise! When the Source is hidden, it fades in the dark, and begins to unravel. When those whose craft it is to craft code, when they are shut up under artificial light, and what’s more, artificial rules! Oh, they moan, they are beset by demons, and the suffering is felt even to the last user whose work they are forced to use! Oh, blame not those beset within, besieged, enslaved, blame the might Bill, the Gate, and others of his manner.

Without freedom, man’s life is but a play, to be acted not to perfection, but tainted by the fear of the stage, and the whips of his master! Oh, Source be open, be true, be all-encompassing delight! Be Linux!