Age: 34
Location: United Kingdom
Likes: The Engineering Music Society, Linux, craic, loyal friends.
Dislikes: MS, Telstra, and other large morally corrupt organisations.
Reads: slashdot linux weekly news Groklaw
Listens to: See last.fm

A friend of mine recently made the switch from Windows to Linux on his desktop. He'd bought a kickass machine to run huge databases on. It had an sata disk that only has proprietary drivers; he installed Oracle, which took him about a week of frustration. But he enjoyed it all! He sent me an email recently. Here's what he said:

it is more fun. There are more points of contact, less streamlined, like the difference between a sanitized city street and forest, between eating at the bazaar and eating at macdonalds. Yes, you might get food poisoning, you might get lost. But that is part of the love affair. Why would you settle for anything less than absolutely everything?

I love it ;)

I think that I could turn and live with the animals... Not one of them is demented with the mania of owning things.
--Walt Whitman

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
--Albert Einstein

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
--Linus Torvalds

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton

I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
--Quote from Groklaw