[repost] [j at uriah.heep.sax.de: For Approval: The beer-ware license]

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Jan 12 08:27:57 UTC 2008


Quoting Russ Nelson (nelson at crynwr.com):

> Somewhere, there is a playwright writing a play about a king, who is
> saying "The first thing we do, let's kill all the programmers."

Quoting one of the lesser-known variant texts:


Fool:  The reason why the nine clauses of Artistic Licence are but nine
       is a pretty one.
Lear:  Because there are not ten?
Fool:  Yes, indeed:  Thou wouldn't make a good fool.

(Well, it was worth a try.)




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