Archive for March, 2007

Don’t call me a sell-out

Published by monkeypup 3 days, 8 hours ago in internet. 0 Comments

For the longest time, my mantra has been “Open Source over Commercial.” I’m not sure whether it was the geek in me trying to fit in with all the open source geeks, an attempt to fight the man or just my compulsive habit of trying anything different. Whatever it was, it’s gone now.

I played with Linux distributions to replace Windows, only to come back to XP for the convenience and compatibility with my favorite programs. I tried music program after music program, only to return to itunes for the its many features and its well-integrated store. Likewise for Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office and more.

It’s just a fact that commercial products are better-supported, more regularly updated and usually just of higher quality. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still use Open Source products when they are the best alternative (VLC, Firefox, Notepad++, Launchy to name a few), but I’ve stopped going out of my way to use Open Source products just because they’re Open Source.

So, maybe I’m supporting an evil empire here and there. But what can you do? I guess, sometimes, you have to revert to the old hackneyed expression “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”

This week in Hate

Published by monkeypup 5 days, 23 hours ago in politics. 2 Comments

Ann Coulter: “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot’, so……”

Michael Savage: “I don’t like a woman married to a woman, it makes me want to puke.” “As for children raised by two women, I think it’s child abuse.”

Hooray for America.