David A. Harding
Sunday, 02 Dec 2007
Cassandra
1. a daughter of Priam endowed with the
gift of prophecy but fated to never be believed.
2. one that predicts
misfortune or disaster.
—Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
Sam Williams Interviews Richard Stallman
After spiting the gift of a God, an early Xerox laser
printer, I was cursed to know the future and never be believed. I
foresaw the fall of my beloved city, the MIT AI Lab, and fled to the
Temple of Free Software, but I was unwillingly made the concubine of the
egotistical Open Source Movement. I was also dragged out of the temple
of Free Software and raped by Ajax Google Docs.
Mr. Stallman, you can't say you were raped by Ajax Google Docs.
Why not? Why do you think we wrote the AGPL?
Warning: there are several paintings of Ajax the Lesser's rape of Cassandra on her Wikipedia article.