Re: OT: Shirts!

> >    * Step 1 - We admitted Microsoft was powerless over our IT use -
> > that many IT systems had become unmanageable
> >    * Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than Microsoft
> > could restore us to sanity
> >    * Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our IT hardware and phones over
> > to the care of Free Open Software Source
> >    * Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless inventory of our IT security
> >    * Step 5 - Admitted to ourselves the exact nature of closed
> > sources, IT compartmentalization and monopoly restricting wide
> > engineering advancement
> >    * Step 6 - Were entirely ready to support FOSS through volunteering
> >    * Step 7 - Humbly asked everyone to expose these limiting costly
> > shortcomings widely
> >    * Step 8 - Made a list of all areas that Microsoft had harmed, and
> > became willing to find replacement solutions for them all
> >    * Step 9 - Made direct FOSS source, education and training
> > contributions where ever possible
> >    * Step 10 - Continued to take IT source inventory and when
> > processes and programs were too expensive and wasteful promptly
> > admitted it
> >    * Step 11 - Sought to improve our conscious understanding of the
> > truth outside of clever marketing campaigns
> >    * Step 12 - Having had an intellectual awakening as the result of
> > these steps, we tried to carry this message to all others and to
> > practice ethical FOSS principles in all our IT affairs

> I doubt very seriously that sarcastic intelligent humor stops anyone
> from doing anything (especially seeking other like minded individuals
> who want a "different way to live" [read "a place to meet women; be
> "big book thumpers" and "drink deep of altruistic personal gain"]); if
> your world view is this black and white simplistic, as to actually
> think that our little humorous analogy with CLOSED SORES (corporate
> computing) addiction would be "bad press" you must not listen to
> current comedians or go to the various Recovery Bookstores and read
> bumper stickers, cards and other joke materials?    {Laugh}