From: Brad Phelan Date: 2007-07-25T04:45:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Editor > Only because we haven't cracked free energy and replicators yet... > Again, working on it :-) > The free energy movement faces the same hurdles as the free software movement. Locked out by government controlled energy oligarchies, similar to the government controlled intellectual property robber barons, they need a Nikolai Tesla to wave the flag .... but he died ... a while ago ... which makes him kinda useless. However we have Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, surely sympathetic to their 'free' brethren. As a first step Linus needs to add kernel support for 'free energy' threads based on the ground breaking work by Mark McCutcheon. It would be a sure hit at the server farm and as Linux finally breaks onto the desktop this year it will carry the 'free' mantra to it's final and inevitable destiny. Free software and free energy together. There is always the risk of a backlash by entrenched parties, fat with power and hungry to stay with outdated business models, at the expense of the greater good. To protect against this the next step would be for Mr Stallman to quickly trot out GPL v4 with an explicit 'free energy' clause. This would effectively sandbox free software on free energy computers. In lay terms free software would only be able to run on switched off computers and closed source software would only run on switched on computers. There is also a risk that VMWare will rise to the challenge and create emulation environments for 'free energy' computers emulating the energy required for closed source software to be able to run. Thus GPL v4 must also be explicit that energy emulation is disallowed. Once this is done the world will be happy.