Thursday, August 31, 2006
A Slashdot five
In the year 2002 I achieved a five score on slashdot, this is the highest score for a comment that you can get on slashdot and as I made the comment as an anomynous coward, made it all the more pleasurable.
The five meant my comment was read by thousands of people, because of the moderation filter.
Read on Slashdot here
This is the comment.
The five meant my comment was read by thousands of people, because of the moderation filter.
Read on Slashdot here
This is the comment.
About 500 years ago, a guy named Martin Luther decided to translate the Bible into German, thus was born the Protestant revolution. The point being, that before this, if you were German and could not read Latin, you had to have a priest translate the words of God AKA the Bible.
A Brit named William Tyndale had the same idea, he printed 50 copies of the Bible *in English*, the establishment was that shocked at this idea, they burnt him at the stake. Probably because they thought the idea of the common people having direct access to the 'holy writ' would lead to them thinking for themselves and having dangerous ideas.
How like the current debate between open source and closed source this all sounds. Just substitute operating system for Bible, money for God, the stock market for the Holy Roman Empire and Bill Gates as the Pope and it all lines up.
