After all the SCO doom and gloom, this place needs a little humor to
lighten up. Link to story
is:http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/25/1910248.shtml?tid=16 and for
those who can't wait here is the text.
Jeff
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Linus Torvalds enters race for California Governor
Sunday August 31, 2003 - [ 09:07 AM GMT ]
/- by David "cdlu" Graham <mailto:cdlu@pkl.net> -/
In a surprise announcement this morning, Linux creator Linus Torvalds
says he will enter the race to be the governor of California.
Linus' announcement came in the form of a message to the Linux Kernel
Mailing List (lkml). Linus says he believes none of the California
leadership race's 135 existing candidates can bring real change and
improvement to the economy in the state, but that he does have a solution.
"There is a good state here, and it can use some improvement," Linus
wrote in his announcement, "but I'd like to try creating my own. This
race is a great opportunity to try."
As part of his governing strategy, Linus promised to open the government
to contributions from anyone who wishes to contribute, and he will
accept or reject those contributions by the people based on their merit
and applicability to the situation at hand. "In this way," he wrote,
"every citizen of California will have an accessible government. We will
work together to develop and maintain a government capable of keeping up
with the times which is always willing to try new things."
Governor Gray Davis, upon hearing the news late this morning, was
overheard by a reporter telling an associate that Linus had no hope of
winning the recall election because proprietary governments were much
better than open governments. "No government that listened to changes
proposed by an average citizen has ever succeeded," Mr. Davis said.
"Ideas have to be developed in-house and sold to the public when they
are complete. Public discussion of public policy is merely an illusion.
The government passes laws and the people abide by them, whether or not
they like them."
Linus knows that people can't win elections without substantial
financial backing, he assured his supporters in the Linux community.
Prior to his announcement he had already secured more than $3 million
toward his campaign from various Linux and Open Source companies, which
he has been in touch with over the last few weeks.
One of the hurdles facing Linus' campaign is that the nomination period
for candidates has ended. Linus hopes to get around this problem by
encouraging fans of freedom and openness looking for a new way of
governing to write in his name on the ballot. "California election law
allows write-in ballots," he said. "Use them for all they are worth."
With the tens of thousands of Linux developers and the millions of users
of Linux around the world likely willing to help his campaign, Linus
says he believes he can win the election. "California will be an open
society and a wonderful place to live on my watch."
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