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YES!! You go, Girl! ...once you go Linux, you'll never go back to MS
Bloatware, blue screens of death, unrecoverable application errors,
slooowww - piggy performance and endless, expensive "upgrades". I can only
hope that more and more developers ( private and commercial) in our small,
vertical market will embrace the Linux platform and free us from the
necessity of being shackled to Microshaft.
----- Original Message -----
From: [ tradergirl ] <tradergirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 11:03 AM
Subject: Tradegirls philosophy must be stopped
> Okay, let's break this down, to finally find enlightement, shall we?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 5:40 AM
> Subject: Re: DBC Microsoft Mentality
>
>
> >
> > -- Tradergirl (the prolific) wrote:
> >
> > > ... See, that's what's great about Open Source,
> > > Linux, and Free Software -- the ability to exchange
> > > unhindered. The true spirit of trading incarnate.
> >
> >
> > Eh? The true spirit of trading is casting lots? You throw in what you
> want to throw in and *maybe* someone will throw in something useful to
>you?
> That is not trading, that is altruism. Trading is exchanging *value for
> value* - I give you this thing of value, directly in exchange for that
> >thing of value. You have nothing of value to exchange? Then you can't
> *trade*.
>
> No it is not altruism, it is 'market making' in its most fundamental form.
> I am no altruist, if anything, I am a rebel spirit, a tigeress who likes
to
> claw at the bad guys out there, as I climb to the top. Market Making?
Yes,
> if I can use my skills to help release an open source approach to
technical
> analysis with like minds, it introduces technical analysis to the market
> place in a more efficient manner. It can thus educate people cheaply (ie.
> free downloads as opposed to $2495 + $300 a month, and $430 startup; to
see
> if they are any good), more people involved, more using technical
analysis,
> then it re-inforces the marketplaces movements even more. But that's not
> why we do these things, we do them to see if they can be done, to create
> value for the marketplace, and the religion of technical analysis in
> general. I do not want to make money off traders before they hit the
> market, I want to give them a good tennis raquet, some nice Nike's, and
some
> instructions before we got at it.
>
> Now maybe I would have a different mentality, but I don't see *value for
> value*, I see usurping for crap out there. Everything from ASCTrend, to
how
> Omega handled the transition to TS2, to how DBC gives customers these nice
> little phone calls. Personally, I would like to all see them eliminated,
> producing the greatest value for the trading community when it wouldn't be
> illegal to trade .ELA's between us, or the likes. I am talking hyper
growth
> here. This is the information age, information is mean to be free. it is
> the natural evolution that information seeks the path of least resistence.
>
> > What is it that "hinders" your exchange of code today? How does
> Microsoft, the greatest producer of value that has ever existed, hinder
your
> >ability to exchange anything?
>
> Microsoft was the greatest producer of value. The greatest on the
horizons
> are Linux. If you have an extra machine, I'll get you a CD of Linux sent
to
> you. You'll stick it in your CD, and boot. 30 minutes later you will
have
> a graphical networking system, with Star Office (Microsoft Office clone
from
> Sun), Netscape 4.72 128bit, a webserver (http:// anytime we want guys,
right
> to our machines, our DSL lines, no need for private hosting), a built in
FTP
> site right into the machine (upon booting, no need to configure), the
> ability to have 300 users sign into your system's FTP since it is
multiuser
> and multitasking (can be done if you use Cable or DSL), all software is
> free, and there is nothing to buy, yet you get all this and more. This is
> value. Microsoft is value for a higher price tag. Is Windows the future?
> No it isn't. The National Science Foundation just made the biggest Super
> Computer in the world, guess what it is running? Linux. Guess what my
> Pentium3 is running? Linux. Ask yourself this... could WindowsNT power
> that super computer at the National Science Foundation? Nope.
>
> Why? Because Microsoft offers value in a specific set of guidelines.
Linux
> being open, can spread rapidly unhindered by capitalism at its lowest
> levels. It doesn't see itself as necessary to make money, it sees itself
as
> a means to open up society to a new level of information and sharing.
This
> thus creates a stronger economy, and brings tools for people to
participate
> that once could not enter, thus the market gets larger. If you still
think
> I am a nut case, just realize 83% of the HTTP sites you go to are some
> varient of Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc. FREE.
>
> > What's that? You think that Microsoft's programmers should give away
> their work? And do you believe in slavery? Do you believe in private
> >property? Do you believe in justice (getting what you earn)?
>
> I believe copyrights are mostly a sham. I think once humanity gets over
its
> 'control issues', we'll improve. Look at the internet... it is scalable
> information going everywhere, and has transformed the world in a few
years.
> However, if everyone had (C)'s on their pages, and you had to PAY to see
> pages with (C)'s, it would be a nightmare. The freedom that is upon us is
> great. Do I believe in slavery? Does Microsoft? Does DBC? You know, I
> sometimes feel like a slave to them. I pay a fee, to be able to interact
in
> their world. What I am talking about is the end of slavery, it is justice
> itself.
>
> I sometimes ask myself, if the IRS believes in slavery. I mean, here I am
> here, and doing my thing, and they want to clip off 40% of everything I
> produce. So am I 40% enslaved, and 60% free? Yes, and if I had a chance
to
> hack into the IRS, and format their database I would.
>
> There you have it, I'm a bad bad bad girl.
>
> But still sort of cool, don't you think?
>
> :)
>
>
> >
> >
> > The Omega Man
> >
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