Monday, 16 February 2009

Gettysburg IP Address

Four score and seven parsec ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new OS, conceived in Linux, and dedicated to the proposition that all process are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great techno war, testing whether that OS, or any OS, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field 2 of that techno war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their virtual lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate IP—we can not consecrate IP—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave processes, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little text, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated server here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here a dedicated server to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead process we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead process shall not have died in vain—that this OS, under Technology, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that Softwware: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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